30. Is Radical Pedagogy Caught in a Double Bind?

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar Presents: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Abstract

In recent decades, educational initiatives motivated by a progressive social vision have multiplied producing a set of fragmented, overlapping, and sometimes competing discourses. These radical pedagogies share two things, a vision of a more just, equitable, and humane society and consistently critical engagement from within. Practitioners and theorists raise serious concerns regarding the efficacy, often unacknowledged presuppositions, and unintended consequences of their pedagogical interventions suggesting that radical pedagogy may be caught in a double bind.

Author

• Christine Contestable, University of Utah