Abstract:
In this chapter we propose five principles that may help teacher educators manage this complexity and guide them with their own efforts towards enacting a transformative pedagogy. We propose that transformative pedagogies require embodied awareness, a focus on diversity, the enactment of democratic principles including student voice, active questioning of your own practice, and a critique of the mechanisms of oppression. Although individual teaching practices may align more strongly with individual principles, we stress that the ability to enact a transformative pedagogy lies in the consideration of, and complex multi-layered relationship between all principles. In the following discussion we firstly examine the concept of transformative pedagogies before outlining the five principles that underpin this concept.
