Transforming perspectives in lifelong learning and adult education : a dialogue / Laura Formenti, Linden West.
2018
LC5215 .F67 2018
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Title
Transforming perspectives in lifelong learning and adult education : a dialogue / Laura Formenti, Linden West.
Author
Formenti, Laura, author
ISBN
9783319963884 (electronic book)
3319963880 (electronic book)
3319963872
9783319963877
3319963880 (electronic book)
3319963872
9783319963877
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-96388-4 doi
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LC5215 .F67 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
374
Summary
This book constructs a deepening, interdisciplinary understanding of adult learning and imaginatively reframes its transformative aspects. The authors explore the tension at the heart of current understanding of 'transformative' adult learning: that while it can be framed as both easy and imperative, personal transformation is in fact rooted in the context in which we live, our stories and relationships. At its core, transformation is never easy - nor always desirable - and the authors thus draw on interdisciplinary and auto/biographical inquiry to explore what it means to change our presuppositions and frames of meaning that guide our thinking. Using their linguistic, gendered, academic and cultural differences, the authors illuminate how the social, contextual, cultural, cognitive and psychological dimensions of transformation intertwine. In doing so, they emphasise the importance of transformation as a contingent struggle for meaning and recognition, social justice, fraternity, and the pursuit of truth. This engaging book will be of interest to students and scholars of transformative learning and education.
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West, Linden, author.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Landscapes of transforming perspectives
Chapter 2. Form and formlessness
Chapter 3. On perspective
Chapter 4. Critical thinking
Chapter 5. A difficult business
Chapter 6. Soul work
Chapter 7. Body matters
Chapter 8. Popular education and democratisation
Chapter 9. Imagine
Chapter 10. The spirit of transformation.
Chapter 2. Form and formlessness
Chapter 3. On perspective
Chapter 4. Critical thinking
Chapter 5. A difficult business
Chapter 6. Soul work
Chapter 7. Body matters
Chapter 8. Popular education and democratisation
Chapter 9. Imagine
Chapter 10. The spirit of transformation.