Daring to Become: Changing Curriculum to Educate for Freedom and Democracy

• In Event: Roundtable Session 47
  In Roundtable Session: Transformative Learning: Propelling Change

Abstract

This study shows how people make meaning of educational experiences and how their interpretations influence the way they live their lives. The findings point to how curriculum can be used to make one’s original project possible (Sartre, 1956), which is the foundation for making choices to live meaningful social lives. The findings offer questions and thoughts on how to enable (school) people to understand themselves as creators of the world rather than as participants. It is my hope that this study contributes to curriculum studies by complexifying the idea of learning as the process of awakening, which is a prerequisite for a social existence characterized by freedom and democracy.

Author

• Sonja Varbelow, Angelo State University