TEACHING CASUISTRY
PROMOTING A TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS
Keywords:
EDUCATION, TEACHING, LEARNING, FACEBOOK, 21ST CENTURY, TRANSFORMATIVE, SOCIETY, CASUISTRYAbstract
This paper seeks to present casuistry as a pedagogical tool to promote what literature on education refers to as the transformative learning theory. An attempt is also made to show methodological commonalities between casuistry and the transformative learning theory in terms of being context dependent, inductive in approach and being experiential in method. Furthermore, the paper argues that the new questions and unique experiences of the 21st century learners or the so-called facebook generation demand the re-emergence of casuistry. Given the peculiarities of the F generation, the casuistic method is the most suited way of teaching ethics/morality that can facilitate the transformative learning experiences of our facebook generation of students.
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