Location
Sasquatch Room 124 C
Event Website
https://www.gonzaga.edu/icohs
Start Date
21-4-2023 10:30 AM
End Date
21-4-2023 11:45 AM
Publication Date
2023
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Law | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description
Building on a co-authored book chapter, A Futures Perspective for an Andragogy of Hope, I propose to explore the role teachers can play in opening up hopeful pedagogical spaces for K-12 students. In the chapter, we describe a pedagogic/andragogic creed that includes “I am a teacher full of the spirit of hope, in spite of all that stands to the contrary. I am a teacher who refuses the disillusionment that consumes and immobilizes” (Freire, 2014, p. 94). This echoes my opening words which included the following from the Prayer of St. Francis: “where there is despair [let me sow] hope.” Education, as pedagogy and andragogy, should be a hopeful, aspirational, and worthwhile process for each student and each teacher. How can this manifest in the actions and words of existing and aspiring teachers? Hope can be a counterweight to hate and polarization that appears to grip parts of the social fabric of our communities and their schools. Schools offer an essential space for children, youth, and adults to learn in safe ways to restore hopefulness for each participant. Drawing on scholarship and literature from hate studies literature, critical pedagogy, liberation theology, educational philosophers, etc., I propose to provide some concrete examples for teacher preparation and their continuing education
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Recommended Citation
Prefontaine, Ivon, "Re-imagining Teacher Education as an Andragogy of Hope" (2023). International Conference on Hate Studies. 5.
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/icohs/2023/seventh/5
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Session Title
Education as a Reinforcer of Hate and as a Mediator for Change
Type
Panel
Re-imagining Teacher Education as an Andragogy of Hope
Sasquatch Room 124 C
Building on a co-authored book chapter, A Futures Perspective for an Andragogy of Hope, I propose to explore the role teachers can play in opening up hopeful pedagogical spaces for K-12 students. In the chapter, we describe a pedagogic/andragogic creed that includes “I am a teacher full of the spirit of hope, in spite of all that stands to the contrary. I am a teacher who refuses the disillusionment that consumes and immobilizes” (Freire, 2014, p. 94). This echoes my opening words which included the following from the Prayer of St. Francis: “where there is despair [let me sow] hope.” Education, as pedagogy and andragogy, should be a hopeful, aspirational, and worthwhile process for each student and each teacher. How can this manifest in the actions and words of existing and aspiring teachers? Hope can be a counterweight to hate and polarization that appears to grip parts of the social fabric of our communities and their schools. Schools offer an essential space for children, youth, and adults to learn in safe ways to restore hopefulness for each participant. Drawing on scholarship and literature from hate studies literature, critical pedagogy, liberation theology, educational philosophers, etc., I propose to provide some concrete examples for teacher preparation and their continuing education
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/icohs/2023/seventh/5