Circular pedagogy and digitisation: A new educational paradigm Available to Purchase

Global socio-economic and environmental systems are subject to significant uncertainty and increasing pressures derived from growing divides and inequalities that challenge the United Nations Sustainability Agenda and its central and transformative promise of "Leaving no one Behind." Contemporary educational models are identified as insufficient to manage existing and emerging challenges, as they fail to equip students with the skills and competencies demanded by a fast-evolving and hypercomplex social, economic and political landscape. The dynamic nature of our world and its interrelated systems are influenced by the needs of the labour market and the importance of educating our learners to embrace their role as future global citizens. Consequently, existing educational models are falling short as they are significantly detached from our global society’s reality, and undoubtedly, they need to be reshaped, reinvented and aligned with present and evolving economic, political, social and technological demands. At the heart of the required educational transformation, we identify pedagogy. This paper proposes a new perspective regarding the teaching-learning process and research elements that should build a new educational model in the digitalisation era. We present a new concept that seeks to contribute to the development of the next generation of pedagogy. We have named our innovative approach as Circular Pedagogy, where the researcher, the learner, and the teacher engage in continuous interchangeable roles during their learning process. This paper offers a few initial insights into how this new concept can be connected with traditional elements from pedagogical fields and reinterpreted through the lens of present realities and the supercomplexity of our learning environments.