The Learning Self: Understanding the Potential for Transformation - Couverture rigide

Tennant

 
9780470393369: The Learning Self: Understanding the Potential for Transformation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 047039336X ISBN 13 : 9780470393369
Editeur : Jossey-Bass, 2012

Synopsis

"This book examines the kind of learning that brings about significant personal change (transformational learning), and its overall theme is that individuals can be agents in their own formation by understanding and acting on the circumstances and forces that surround and shape them.Education beyond schooling has a long history of interest in the development and transformation of the self. A range of programs exist, from those which aim to promote self-development as an end in itself, to those programs in which changes to the self are seen as being a necessary component of broader organizational or social change. There are also a host of programs where self-change is important in its own right, but where there is a broader social problem being addressed (e.g. programs for AIDS patients, those addicted to drugs, diabetes sufferers, recent migrants, soon-to-be-parents, etc.). In all these programs there are implicit or explicit theorizations concerning the nature of the self and the way the self relates to others or to society, which are a necessary part of our conception of the possibility of self-change and the associated practices deployed for the purpose of change.The book aims to: promote, among educators and others with an educational dimension to their work, a more critical approach to their learning designs and practices; equip individuals with a framework for understanding and being agents of their own self-formation and change. "--

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À propos de l?auteur

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MARK TENNANT is professor emeritus of education at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he has held the positions of dean of the University Graduate School and dean of the Faculty of Education. He was the recipient of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Literature in Adult Education for his book Psychology and Adult Learning and is the coauthor of Learning and Change in the Adult Years and Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education.

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Éditeur
Jossey-Bass
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
047039336X
ISBN 13 
9780470393369
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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