On the borders of Pedagogy: Implementing a critical pedagogy for students on the Thai Burma border

This article uses an auto-ethnographic approach to explore the reflections and insights that occurred during my teaching of a subject in adolescent development on the Thai Burma border. This paper adopts a relatively descriptive style to a personal reflection of teaching on the border and how it tra...

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Published inAustralian journal of adult learning Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 126 - 146
Main Author Jen Couch
Format Journal Article
Published 01.04.2017
Subjects
Australian Catholic University
Critical pedagogy
Curricula
Education
Methodology
Practice
Teaching
Australia
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ISSN1443-1394

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Summary:This article uses an auto-ethnographic approach to explore the reflections and insights that occurred during my teaching of a subject in adolescent development on the Thai Burma border. This paper adopts a relatively descriptive style to a personal reflection of teaching on the border and how it transformed the way I teach and made me look at the pedagogy that underpins my teaching practice. I found a lack of congruence between the pedagogical theories that are espoused and how I could apply these to a border setting. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to explore some of the ways I began to develop a Thai Burma classroom praxis that drew on the theoretical underpinnings of a humanising critical pedagogy.
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Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Vol. 57, No. 1, Apr 2017: 126-146
ISSN:1443-1394