Looks like a classroom to us
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Stansfield, John
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2017-12-13
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Conference Contribution - Paper in Published Proceedings
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tertiary education
work-based learning
teaching spaces
Unitec courses
Bachelor of Social Practice (BSP)
social work education
Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
neoliberalism
social work students
social action
work-based learning
teaching spaces
Unitec courses
Bachelor of Social Practice (BSP)
social work education
Freire, Paulo (1921-1997)
neoliberalism
social work students
social action
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Stansfield, J. M. (2017, December). Looks like a classroom to us. In S. Nash and L.L.M. Patston (Eds.), Spaces and Pedagogies: New Zealand Tertiary Learning and Teaching Conference 2017 Proceedings (pp. 93-102). Unitec ePress, Unitec Institute of Technology.
Abstract
Neoliberal ideologies, with their emphasis on the rule of markets, and community development, which promotes ground-up collective social change and human rights, stand in stark contrast to each other. In a social practice school, teaching tomorrow’s social change-makers the theory and practice of community development, we experiment with what authentic out-of-classroom learning experiences might be – by, for example, engaging students in a union picket, a protest march and a policy breakfast – and reflect together on how these might inform a deeper discussion of community development using a Freirean lens. The risks, logistics and outcomes of this work-based learning are explored as well as the potential for this innovation to illuminate further the paradox of educating change-makers in a neoliberal institution.
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Looks like a classroom to us by John Stansfield is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.