Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy

Caine, Jamie; Gilroy, Johanne; Greaves, Maxine; Madriaga, Manuel

Abstract

University staff from African, Asian and other Minoritised Groups (AAMG) are not resigned to the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the corridors, classrooms, and lecture theatres of the academy. This article articulates a self-study, where we employ our own narratives and stories, as leaders, teachers, and students on a race-specific initiative. The work presented here attempts to offer a counter-narrative to the colour-evasive discourse and policymaking throughout the English Higher Education sector that perpetuates deficit perspectives for AAMG students. In addition to this, we propose a 'Progressive Relational Pedagogy' that provides a strong foundation for meaningful work across the Higher Education sector. In doing so, we provide a way forward in policy and practice to sustain the cultural richness, heritages, and authenticities of AAMG students. The narrative concludes with pragmatic steps towards enhancing organisational alignment, integration and governance through a race inclusion lens, courtesy of leveraging steps from a Race Inclusion Framework that is underpinned by the LEAD Enterprise Ontology (von Rosing and Laurier, 2015; Caine and von Rosing, 2018).

Citation

Caine, J., Gilroy, J., Greaves, M., & Madriaga, M. (2022). Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy. Social Policy and Society, 21(1), 106-122. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746421000658

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 4, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Oct 4, 2021
• Publication Date: 2022-01
• Deposit Date: Apr 20, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: May 11, 2023
• Journal: Social Policy and Society
• Print ISSN: 1474-7464
• Electronic ISSN: 1475-3073
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 106-122
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746421000658
• Keywords: Political Science and International Relations; Sociology and Political Science
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/17088065