Social Reconstruction Learning

<p>This volume argues that educational problems have their basis in an ideology of binary opposites often referred to as dualism and that it is partly because mainstream schooling incorporates dualism that it is unable to facilitate the thinking skills dispositions and understandings necessary for autonomy democratic citizenship and leading a meaningful life. Bleazby proposes an approach to schooling termed social reconstruction learning in which students engage in philosophical inquiries with members of their community in order to reconstruct real social problems arguing that this pedagogy can better facilitate independent thinking imaginativeness emotional intelligence autonomy and active citizenship.</p>