The Transformative Classroom: The Theory and Practice of Profound Self-Change
Douglas Yacek  

5.30-7.00 pm 
In person and online.    

Transformative approaches to teaching and learning have become ubiquitous in education today. Researchers, practitioners and commentators alike frequently claim that a worthwhile education should change learners in a profound and enduring way. But what exactly does it mean to be so transformed? What should teachers be transforming students into? Should they really attempt to transform students at all? In this talk, I will give an overview and critique of the most influential approaches to transformative education today. In doing so, I will make a case for a new theory of transformative education based on the moral psychology of aspiration.

Douglas Yacek, PhD, is a research fellow in the Institute for Educational Foundations and Vocational Education at the Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany. His research focuses on questions at the intersections of educational ethics, democratic and moral education, teacher education and the history of educational thought. He is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education (CUP, forthcoming) and Moral Education in the 21st Century (CUP, forthcoming) and author of two monographs: The Transformative Classroom (Routledge, 2021) and Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Education (Routledge, 2018, with Mark Jonas). In 2021, he won the TU Dortmund Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

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Meeting ID: 818 1350 6541