Relational Pedagogies: Connections and Mattering in Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Karen Gravett

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What do meaningful connections in learning and teaching look like, and how might we foster these? Karen Gravett examines the role of relationships, and in particular of relational pedagogies, where meaningful relationships are positioned as fundamental to effective learning. She explores concepts of authenticity, vulnerability, and trust within learning and teaching, as well as the potential of working with students in partnership.
This book also examines the role of relationships between colleagues: how educators can learn from others both within and beyond higher education, as well as considering how teachers can support one another when working within challenging contemporary contexts.
Drawing upon a rich theoretical perspective that interweaves posthuman and sociomaterial theory, Karen Gravett also introduces a broader conception of the relational, where relational pedagogies are understood as encompassing objects, spaces and materialities, as part of an interwoven web of relations. In this innovative conception of relational pedagogies, Gravett offers a broad and rich reworking of our understanding of relationships, and examines their primary role within higher education theory and practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Relationality in Higher Education
Part 1 Relationships with Students
3 Vulnerability as Relational Pedagogy
4 Authenticity and Trust in Teaching and Learning
5 Student–Staff Partnerships as Relational Practice
Part 2 Relationships with Others
6 Supporting Others in Higher Education
7 Learning from Others
8 Becoming, and an Ethic of (Self) Care
Part 3 Relationality and the Sociomaterial
9 Things That Matter
10 The Wider Webs of Relations
11 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research
References
Index