A humanising pedagogy : getting beneath the rhetoric

• Published in: Perspectives in education Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 76 - 87
• Main Authors: Zinn, Denise, Rodgers, Carol
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bloemfontein University of the Free State 01.12.2012; Perspectives in Education; University of the Free State, Faculty of Education
• Subjects: Citizenship; College Faculty; College Students; Dehumanization; Education; Educational Discrimination; Educational Philosophy; Educational Researchers; Emancipatory methodology; Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Hermeneutics; Higher Education; Human Dignity; Humanising pedagogy; Humanising praxis; Humanism; Humanization; Learning; Learning Experience; Liberatory education; Literature Reviews; Meaning; Mining; Narrative inquiry; Oral Tradition; Pedagogy; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Power; Praxis; Rhetoric; School Personnel; Social Justice; Society; South Africa; Students; Teaching; South Africa
• ISSN: 0258-2236; 2519-593X

In this article, the authors situate and make an argument for a humanising pedagogy in response to the legacy of a dehumanising past in South Africa. They describe the inquiry into a humanising pedagogy by means of mining stories of living and learning in South Africa. The authors explain how the meanings and praxis of a humanising pedagogy unfold as the story of the work unfolds. One result of the work has been aworking collection of "Statements of awareness" that are authentic and significant, though still evolving, which frame a humanising pedagogy.