Critical Pedagogy between Theory and Practice
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Higher Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 2001
Special Issue Editors
Interests: critical pedagogy; recognition in pedagogy; multiculturalism, religion and politics; ethnicity and racism
Interests: comparative political theory; the history of political thought; feminist theory; postcolonial theory; critical pedagogy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Higher Education in many European contexts is shaped and characterised by contrasting and conflicting pressures on pedagogical practice in higher education institutions. On the one hand, higher education is increasingly driven by marketisation and globalisation due to competition within the higher education sector as a result of neoliberal governance, while on the other hand, universities centre concerns of social justice oriented by egalitarian values. The expansion of higher education through an increased internationalisation can also be added to this .
At the same time, and in the context of these structuring forces, intellectual currents have provided significant challenges to pedagogy in higher education institutions. A significant development has been something of a critical mass engaged with critical pedagogies, especially influenced by the writing of figures such as Paolo Freire. Simultaneously, critical epistemological perspectives have begun to raise questions around the politics of knowledge production. A prominent recent movement here has been the push to decolonise higher education, but also includes feminist and queer pedagogies.
Despite these developing themes, there remains, nevertheless, a gap between critical theorisations of these processes and structural conditions, on the one hand, and practical pedagogies, on the other hand. That is, while the literature has tended to concentrate on critical theorisations of these areas, of their effects and implications for considerations of pedagogy and social justice, there has as yet been an inadequate engagement with what this means for our, as lecturers and seminar tutors, pedagogical practice. This Special Issue seeks to bring together articles that critically interrogate these gaps between theory and practice, and wider structural shifts and practice.
We welcome submissions focused on these challenges to pedagogical practice in relation to (but not limited to):
- Internationalisation;
- Marketisation;
- Critical pedagogies;
- Inclusive pedagogies;
- Decolonial pedagogies.
Dr. Thomas Sealy
Dr. Wendy Martineau
Dr. Ashley Dodsworth
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- critical pedagogy
- pedagogical practice
- pedagogy, marketisation
- internationalization
- decolonization
- inclusive pedagogies
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