pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does
it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method
or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political
and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that
enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to
be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the
promise of a substantive democracy