Bleak Pedagogy: A new term unveiled from research on Adultcentrism

With this work we propose an overview of the studies that led to the operationalization of Adultcentrism (AD) and Black Pedagogy (BP) scales. Moreover, we outline the international research connections with childist theoretical perspective, which has been analyzed in its potential to promote age-inclusive developments and educational methodologies (Biswas et al., 2023). Indeed, through the analyses of our results, it has become clear that Adultcentrism seems to reflect the natural point of view of adults, which risks leading to detrimental practices only if exacerbated (Florio et. al, 2022a). Furthermore, the construct of Black Pedagogy proved to be particularly useful if used in a non-judgmental way (Florio et al., 2023), prompting the proposal of the new term “Bleak Pedagogy”.