__ LIPS – Leading in Public Schools

Our teaching and learning habits are useful but they can also be deadly.
They are useful when the conditions in which they work are predictable and
stable. But what happens if and when the bottom falls out of the stable social
world in and for which we learn? Is it possible that learning itself – learning
as we have come to enact it habitually – may no longer be particularly
useful? Could it be that the very habits that have served us so well in stable
times might actually become impediments to social success, even to social
survival? This paper explores reasons why we may need to give up on some
of our deeply held beliefs about teaching and learning in order to better
prepare young people for their social futures.

Click here to download the article or, have a look at the article within this journal
McWilliam, E. (2005). Unlearning pedagogy. Journal of Learning Design, 1(1), 1-
11.