- Title
- On the subject of pedagogies: Vygotskian contributions to a postmodern approach to critical pedagogy
- Creator
- Parkes, Robert John
- Relation
- AARE 2000. AARE 2000: Conference papers (Sydney 4-7 December, 2000)
- Relation
- http://www.aare.edu.au/00pap/par00272.htm
- Publisher
- Association for Active Educational Researchers (AARE)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2001
- Description
- This paper represents an on-going attempt to establish a dialogue between educational theories of mind and society. It is part of a continuing project to formulate a critical pedagogy that is comfortable under postmodern conditions. I will begin by briefly exploring the ways in which various "radical pedagogues" have attempted to respond to the crisis of postmodernity - the death of certainty about the truth-claims of the curriculum, the nature of students, and authority within the pedagogical relation - arguing that they do not go far enough to satisfy postmodern concerns. I will then turn to pedagogies inspired by Vygotsky's (1934/1987) notion of the Zone of Proximal Development, (including those that cluster around the metaphors of scaffolding/construction, apprenticeship, and performance) and argue that in their reformulation of the pedagogical relation, and their resultant problematisation of knowledge, subjectivity and agency, lies possibilities for a radical postmodern pedagogy. I will conclude by addressing Gee, Hull & Lankshear's (1996) important critique that these pedagogies are aligned with the interests of fast capitalism, and argue that all radical pedagogies are in Foucauldian terms, "dangerous practices".
- Subject
- critical pedagogy; Vygotsky; postmodernity; educational theories
- Identifier
- uon:3029
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/32400
- Identifier
- ISSN:1324-9339
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