Towards a pedagogy of teacher education: characteristics of the inquiring teacher from the 60’s counter-culture and a spiritual practice perspective

My first approach to considering teaching in the mode of inquiry was very much influenced by a text published in 1969 and which I first encountered as a student secondary teacher in 1976. It seemed to me that Postman and Weingartner’s Teaching As A Subversive Activity was a most radical piece of writing. While today the late-‘60’s revolutionary tone might date it for some, I still find their vision inspiring and provocative.