Reclaiming relationality in education policy: towards a more authentic relational pedagogy
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Article Title | Reclaiming relationality in education policy: towards a more authentic relational pedagogy |
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ERA Journal ID | 20125 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Riddle, Stewart (Author) and Hickey, Andrew (Author) |
Journal Title | Critical Studies in Education |
Journal Citation | 64 (3), pp. 267-282 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 0076-6275 |
1750-8487 | |
1750-8495 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2022.2132414 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17508487.2022.2132414 |
Abstract | This paper critically examines articulations of relationality present in education policy texts that shape particular discursive representations of relationality between students, teachers and curriculum. The policy texts of Australian state and territory education departments are considered as a set of discursive statements to illustrate how concepts such as relationality are deployed in policy as floating signifiers. Without deep contextualisation, concepts like relationality are instead potentially co-opted and corrupted. We contend that through its uptake, relationality has become a handy catch-all in educational policy discourses, while remaining a sliding signifier, free from a more productive affective potentiality. Instead, we argue that relationality should be centred in education policymaking as part of a commitment to recentre teaching and learning at the heart of schooling through a more authentic, dialogic relational pedagogy. |
Keywords | relationality, relationships, relational pedagogy, education policy, schooling |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390201. Education policy |
390203. Sociology of education | |
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Byline Affiliations | School of Education |
School of Humanities and Communication | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q7v9x/reclaiming-relationality-in-education-policy-towards-a-more-authentic-relational-pedagogy
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