Re-imagining education: cultivating a triangle of trust and relational pedagogy within a participatory paradigm

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In this article, we envision a holistic approach to the education of children within a participatory paradigm, which integrates inner and outer worlds in a new understanding of consciousness. The inspiration for our reimagining arose from a research study undertaken in partnership with Kids Planet Day Nurseries which included inquiring into the impact of Covid-19 on children in early childhood education and care. It was discovered that, although parents and practitioners identified Covid as a traumatic event, there was little awareness of the potential effects on children’s inner worlds. Similarly, the government in its post-lockdown policymaking focused on catch-up with learning, rather than addressing wider psychological issues. In this reimagining of the education system, the neoliberal principle of ‘profit as primary’ has been eradicated, along with its long-term positivist partner ‘scientism’, which proclaims all valid knowledge is quantifiable. Instead, the focus is on the intra-active dimensions of learning, grounded in the idea of a ‘triangle of trust’ developed in the early years and continued into a relational pedagogy in primary schools. The challenges involved in replacing a positivist Newtonian worldview with a participatory paradigm, where inner and outer worlds are entangled and equally important, are discussed.

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Walton, J., & Darkes-Sutcliffe, J. (2023). Re-imagining education: cultivating a triangle of trust and relational pedagogy within a participatory paradigm. Education 3-13, 52(1), 7–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2023.2186978

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