Pedagogy of Hope
Image Source: https://positiveexperience.org/blog/hope-in-educational-settings/ Pedagogy of hope: global learning and the future of education (Comment on Bourn’s article) Historical context: This article talks about the challenges of education in the 2020s. Bourn describes how after events related to climate change, social movements like “Black Lives Matter” and the Covid-19 pandemic, we are facing an inflex point in time when we are realizing: how globally interconnected we are; how complex the challenges we encounter for survival are; and how important is the need to change. Bourn explains that as educationalists, our role is to inform students about these challenges, but more importantly promote a positive vision of the future. Innovation: Bourn agrees that all education has a political component and that hope needs to be driving educational policies and reforms. Hope is a task of all stakeholders involved in education. This involves, constan...