What is Conscious Pedagogy?

Conscious Pedagogy emerges in response to the following types of critical awareness and recognition:

(1) of oneself as a relational being, and of one's own judgments (both critical and approving), projections, and insecurities as limiting and potentially oppressive factors in the learning process;

(2) of the need to allow, honor and affirm the validity of each student's inner process and perspective(s);

(3) of the student-teacher relationship as the central instrument in facilitating each learner’s development;

(4) of the spontaneous, synergistic and exploratory qualities of the learning process;

(5) of individual life experience as a vital and relevant context within which to integrate information and construct meaning;

(6) of the fundamental interrelatedness (or interbeing) of subject matter;

(7) of the incomplete, dialectical and emergent nature of human understanding.

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