This publication connects to emergent research around transformative pedagogy. It comes from the impetus to go back to the drawing board, in order to imagine other possible perspectives on learning and education. It is a body of research that continually writes and enacts itself into existence, cultivated by engaged practitioners within the Willem de Kooning Academy and beyond. While not formalised, these are some of the questions in the air:
- How can transformative pedagogies not only be sustained but also nourished, so that they may flourish in an educational environment where time is often scarce, work contracts are tenuous, and paycheques are meagre?
- How can space, time, and resources be carved out to listen with, tend to, take care of, and learn from each other?
- Is it possible to think about ways of presenting research- in-process so that it does not become fossilised? • How might the quixotic, potentially self-defeating endeavour of even imagining a transformative pedagogy take shape within the institutional environment of higher education?
- In other words, what is there to transform?
While tentative, these are just a few ideas and questions from which this book has sprouted and continues to germinate.