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Transformative Education: New Learning
Transformative pedagogy focuses on the learner and learning. As such, it sets out deliberately to transform students’ life chances and play an active role in changing social conditions. It changes the balance of agency in learning relationships by encouraging learners to build their own knowledge in a supportive learning environment, to work with others in lateral knowledge-making relationships (peers, parents and community members), to negotiate local and global differences, and to extend the breadth and scope of their education beyond the walls of the traditional classroom.
Video Mini-Lectures
Supporting Material
- Bill Gates on American Schools
- Kalantzis and Cope, A Learning Journey
- Transformative Education Case Studies
- The MET: No Classes, No Grades and 94% Graduation Rate
- Class Work
- Children Learning on their Own
- Discovery 1, Christchurch
- Ivan Illich on ‘Deschooling’
- Ken Robinson on How Schools Kill Creativity
- I Did It All By Myself
- Paulo Freire on Education that Liberates
- Classrooms of the Heart
Comment: Mention a stand-out idea, or new thought prompted by this material. Use @Name to speak with others about their thoughts.
Make an Update: Describe and analyze an educational innovation. In what senses might it be called "transformative"?
The way the professor explains everything is how we are handling our curriculum nowadays, just a few years after the pandemic. We handled it very well at first since we have to shift from doing classes online to synchronization and how we be able to use Zoom or Skype at that time.
By 2022, we managed to have shorter classes, in person and for students, but we have this regular work time for the teachers to able to decompress, write up exams, and update lesson plans for the next day.
Transformative pedagogy is a student-centered approach to education that aims to change a learner's life trajectory and contribute to broader social change. It empowers students to build their own knowledge, work with peers and community members, and extend their learning beyond the classroom walls.
ducational Innovation in the Philippines: DepEd’s Digital Rise Program
The Digital Rise Program integrates ICT in teaching by providing online platforms, gadgets, and teacher training. It allows students to access learning resources anytime and equips them with digital literacy skills.
This innovation is transformative because it:
Redefines learning beyond the classroom.
Empowers both teachers and students to use technology in education.
Helps bridge gaps between urban and rural learners.
Prepares Filipino students for a technology-driven society.
ducational Innovation in the Philippines: DepEd’s Digital Rise Program
The Digital Rise Program integrates ICT in teaching by providing online platforms, gadgets, and teacher training. It allows students to access learning resources anytime and equips them with digital literacy skills.
This innovation is transformative because it:
Redefines learning beyond the classroom.
Empowers both teachers and students to use technology in education.
Helps bridge gaps between urban and rural learners.
Prepares Filipino students for a technology-driven society.
Transformative Education: New Learning is a powerful, forward-looking theme that captures the essence of a shift in education from traditional, content-centered approaches to more holistic, learner-driven, and socially responsive models.
The phrase Transformative Education: New Learning suggests a focus on reimagining and reshaping educational practices to better meet the needs of today's world. Transformative education goes beyond acquiring knowledge or skills—it aims to change the learner’s perspective, foster critical thinking, and inspire personal and social growth. It's about:
Encouraging self-reflection and self-awareness.
Promoting equity, inclusion, and global citizenship.
Challenging traditional models of teaching and learning.
Empowering learners to become agents of change.
The phrase Transformative Education: New Learning suggests a focus on reimagining and reshaping educational practices to better meet the needs of today's world. Transformative education goes beyond acquiring knowledge or skills—it aims to change the learner’s perspective, foster critical thinking, and inspire personal and social growth. It's about:
Encouraging self-reflection and self-awareness.
Promoting equity, inclusion, and global citizenship.
Challenging traditional models of teaching and learning.
Empowering learners to become agents of change.
The phrase Transformative Education: New Learning suggests a focus on reimagining and reshaping educational practices to better meet the needs of today's world. Transformative education goes beyond acquiring knowledge or skills—it aims to change the learner’s perspective, foster critical thinking, and inspire personal and social growth. It's about:
Encouraging self-reflection and self-awareness.
Promoting equity, inclusion, and global citizenship.
Challenging traditional models of teaching and learning.
Empowering learners to become agents of change.
Transformative pedagogy changes things up. It shifts the balance of agency in a big way. Students stop being just passive recipients. They turn into active knowledge-makers. They do this right alongside their peers, families, and communities. You know, that part really got me thinking. I mean, it made me reflect on how education could turn into this collective process. Not just something that only happens inside classrooms, basically.
The concept of deschooling from Ivan Illich and others is a stand out idea for me, I think it really suggests that meaningful learning can happen outside the confines of a traditional school building. This connects to the case studies of schools like Discovery 1 in Christchurch and The Met School in Providence, which use the city itself as a classroom. Instead of being confined to four walls, students are encouraged to learn directly from their community and the world around them through internships, mentorships, and project-based learning. This idea fundamentally shifts the role of the teacher from a lecturer to a guide and the classroom from a place to a process.
@Patrisha Clemente, highlights Ivan Illich’s concept of deschooling, which suggests that meaningful learning does not have to be limited to a traditional classroom. She connects this to innovative schools like Discovery 1 in Christchurch and The Met in Providence, where the community itself becomes the classroom. Through internships, mentorships, and project-based learning, students gain knowledge directly from real-world experiences. This approach transforms the role of teachers into guides and reframes the classroom as an ongoing process rather than just a physical space.
@Patrisha Clemente, highlights Ivan Illich’s concept of deschooling, which suggests that meaningful learning does not have to be limited to a traditional classroom. She connects this to innovative schools like Discovery 1 in Christchurch and The Met in Providence, where the community itself becomes the classroom. Through internships, mentorships, and project-based learning, students gain knowledge directly from real-world experiences. This approach transforms the role of teachers into guides and reframes the classroom as an ongoing process rather than just a physical space.