Components of Pedagogies of Flourishing
You might be interested in pedagogies of flourishing if you:
- Care about the wellbeing of your students more than you care about the content of your discipline
- Recognize the whole student, including physical, mental, spiritual and emotional lives, personal history, social contexts, life experiences, etc.
- Value process as much as (or perhaps more than) product
- Aim to help students find their voices and build their sense of agency
- Value the self as subject of inquiry (including noticing and discernment) in addition to course/disciplinary content
- Honor interdependence
- Challenge objective truth claims as forms of domination
- Consider the relationships between awareness and action
- Encourage collaboration rather than competition
- Are comfortable with emergent outcomes
- Use processes for intention-setting and reflection to book-end experiences
- Teach students to apply concepts to their everyday lives
- Recognize the power of education to cultivate dispositions in addition to delivering content and developing skills
- Encourage students to use their learning process to transform society in socially just ways
- Believe that education should be transformational