Transformative approaches to teaching and learning have become ubiquitous in education today. Researchers, practitioners and commentators alike often claim that a truly worthwhile education should transform learners in a profound and enduring way. But what exactly does it mean to be so transformed? What should teachers be transforming students into? Should they really attempt to transform students at all? The Transformative Classroom engages with these questions left open by the vast discussion of transformative education, providing a synthetic overview and critique of some of the most influential approaches today. In doing so, the book offers a new theory of transformative education that focuses on awakening and facilitating students’ aspiration. Drawing on important insights from ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of education, the book provides both conceptual clarity and concrete practical guidance to teachers who hope to create a transformative classroom. This book will be of great interest for academics, K-12 teachers, researchers and students in the fields of curriculum and instruction, teaching and learning, adult education, social justice education, educational theory and philosophy of education.

"The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education What kind of education is needed for democracy? How can education respond to the challenges that current democracies face? This unprecedented Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most important ideas, issues, and thinkers within democratic education. Its thirty chapters are written by leading experts in the field in an accessible format. Its breadth of purpose and depth of analysis will appeal to both researchers and practitioners in education and politics. The Handbook addresses not only the historical roots and philosophical foundations of democratic education, but also engages with contemporary political issues and key challenges to the project of democratic education"--

Begeisterte Schülerinnen und Schüler im Klassenraum – eine Utopie? Keineswegs: Faszination für den Unterrichtsgegenstand kann gezielt gefördert werden. Transformatives Lernen, ein den eigenen Erfahrungshorizont betreffendes, eigene Werte berührendes und damit die Person veränderndes Lernen lässt sich systematisch anregen und durch geeignete Lehrmethoden dauerhaft erhalten. Viele konkrete Beispiele und die Erörterung von typischen Hürden unterstützen Lehrkräfte bei der praktischen Umsetzung.

In demokratischen Gesellschaften ist Kontroversität in politischen Fragen nicht nur normal, sondern geradezu konstitutiv. Wer Politik verstehen will, muss Kontroversität einordnen können. Daher ist Kontroversität zugleich auch Rahmung und Ziel politischer Bildung, diese ist förmlich auf Kontroversität hin angelegt (Beutelsbacher Konsens). Was jedoch unter Kontroversität genau zu verstehen ist und in welcher Weise sie in Lehr-Lern-Prozessen Gestalt gewinnen kann, ist weit weniger klar.