Key concepts in pedagogy, with definitions grounded in the critical and decolonial traditions this module draws from.

  • banking model — Freire’s characterization of conventional education as depositing knowledge into passive learners
  • conscientization — the development of critical awareness and the capacity to act on it
  • dialogic education — learning through dialogue between co-investigators rather than transmission from authority
  • land-based education — education rooted in sustained relationship with place