Pedagogies of Possibility: Learning Circles & Decolonial Practice

Education International EdVoices

This episode is the third of an Education International podcast series entitled ‘Pedagogies of Possibility,’ focusing on how the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project has provided the space for educators to come together across its 7 project countries to invent innovative pedagogical practice that improves educational outcomes for all students. The guest speakers in the third episode include Dalila Andrade Oliveria, professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Heleno Araújo, President of the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE), Ana Maria Clementino, learning circle facilitator and researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Elaine Amancio Ribeiro, teacher in Brasilia, Brazil. In this episode, we will be discussing how teacher-led learning circles for formative assessment respond to Brazil’s distinct colonial history and are spaces for teachers to create critical pedagogies that allow for engagement in educational praxis, where teachers and students engage in a continual process of understanding and acting on the world in order to change it.