Transformative Social Justice Learning as a New Lifelong Learning Paradigm

Abstract

Transformative social justice learning as a social, political, and pedagogical practice takes place when people reach a deeper, richer, more textured and nuanced understanding of themselves and their world. Not in vain, Freire always advocated the simultaneous reading of the world and of the word. Based on a key assumption of Critical Theory that all social relationships involve a relationship of domination and that language constitutes identities, transformative social justice learning, from a meaning-making or symbolic perspective, is an attempt to recreate the various theoretical contexts for the examination of rituals, myths, icons, totems, symbols, and taboos in education and society, in essence an examination of the uneasy dialectic between agency and structure, setting forward a process of transformation (Torres, 2003).KeywordsMoral ResponsibilityCritical TheoryPublic IntellectualIntellectual WorkCritical Social TheoryThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.