The paper aims to use insights from critical pedagogy to forge and exemplify links with the movement of educational inclusion. The struggles for change, theorised in terms of the emancipatory and liberating potential of schooling, set out the conceptual and analytical backdrop against which issues of exclusion and marginalisation are discussed and reflected upon. The emancipatory and transforma...

This paper deals, not with the mechanics of teaching in studies of science and technology, but with communicating Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) as an activity of building with and beyond scientific knowledge, enabling the creation of value towards the future. In undergoing a process of unpacking the genealogy of science, creating a critical distance from hitherto unquestioned assumptions, probl...

This paper extends the theoretical framework underlying the Community Informatics (CI) Studio. The CI Studio has been described as the use of studio-based learning (SBL) techniques to support enculturation into the field of CI. The SBL approach, closely related to John Dewey’s inquiry-based learning, is rooted in the apprenticeship model of learning in which students study with master designers...

Blood spilling into the streets in Charlottesville August 2017 during a “Unite Right” white supremacist rally, an 2019 murderous rampage targeting Latinos at Walmart El Paso, Texas, and most recent January 2021 storming of U.S. Capitol represent only few violent events that have occurred past 5 years initiated by far-right supremacists. Fringe behaviors do not exist vacuum. Every day, privilege...

This article examines how transformative pedagogy happens in the Indian film Taare Zameen Par. has been analyzed under lens of learning theory introduced by Jack Mezirow. The author this purposively selects some critical scenes, dialogues, and situations that appear throughout to understand theory. study employs textual analysis method suggested Frey et al. (1999). prime intention is investigat...

Over the past decades, education took a critical-oriented shift. This perspective changed the role of teachers, students, and classrooms. A teacher's role changes from an instructor to a reflective practitioner, a student is considered an active agent of his/her learning, and a classroom is a place for identity endeavor. The assumption underlying such an approach conceptualizes educatio...