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What is Educational Praxis? (2020)
Mahon, K., Heikkinen, H. L. T., Huttunen, R., Boyle, T., & Sjølie, E. (2020). What is Educational Praxis?. In K. Mahon, C. Edwards-Groves, S. Francisco, M. Kaukko, S. Kemmis, & K. Petrie (Eds.), Pedagogy, Education, and Praxis in Critical Times (pp. 15-38). Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6926-5_2
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Mahon, Kathleen; Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.; Huttunen, Rauno; Boyle, Tess; Sjølie, Ela
Parent publication: Pedagogy, Education, and Praxis in Critical Times
Parent publication editors: Mahon, Kathleen; Edwards-Groves, Christine; Francisco, Susanne; Kaukko, Mervi; Kemmis, Stephen; Petrie, Kirsten
ISBN: 978-981-15-6925-8
eISBN: 978-981-15-6926-5
Publication year: 2020
Pages range: 15-38
Number of pages in the book: 193
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: Singapore
Publication country: Singapore
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6926-5_2
Publication open access: Not open
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Abstract
This chapter explores the question “What is educational praxis?” based on a review of theoretical and empirical research undertaken by the Pedagogy, Education and Praxis (PEP) international research network over the past decade. A book series produced by the network in 2008 explored this very question in relation to a range of educational sites and national contexts. Six key themes emerging from this work were outlined in the first of the books in the series, Enabling Praxis: Challenges for Education. In short, the themes concerned agents and agency; particularity; connectedness; history; morality and justice; and praxis as doing (Kemmis and Smith in Enabling praxis: challenges for education. Sense, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2008b). Using these six themes as a point of departure, we present a view of educational praxis as a kind of educational practice that is informed, reflective, self-consciously moral and political, and oriented towards making positive educational and societal change; it is context-dependent and can therefore take many forms. We also explore the forming, self-forming, and transforming nature of educational praxis and explain its relevance at a time when instrumental, managerialist, and neoliberal rationalities continue to dominate global and local education narratives.
Keywords: educational science; philosophy of education; pedagogy; education and training; practice
Free keywords: educational praxis; education; praxis
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Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2020
JUFO rating: 2
