Transformative learning for a new worldview learning to think differently /

• Main Author: Jackson, M. G., Ph. D.
• Corporate Author: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• Subjects: Transformative learning.; Critical pedagogy.; Postmodernism and education.; Education > Developing countries.; EDUCATION > Aims & Objectives.; Education.; Apprentissage transformationnel.; Postmodernisme et éducation.; Postcolonialisme.; Kritische Pädagogik.; Postmoderne.; Pädagogik.; Developing countries.; Electronic books.
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Transformative learning is a process in which we question all the assumptions about the world and ourselves that make up our worldview, visualize alternative assumptions, and then test them in practice. The author describes the process, offering a critique of contemporary assumptions, and suggests a...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• PART 1: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL CULTURE
• Introduction
• Contradictions, Incoherence and Confusion
• Learning to Think Differently
• Atoms, People and Other Things
• The Laws of Nature
• A Flawed System of Ideas
• Alternative Assumptions
• A Return to the Perennial Questions
• Toward a New Cultural Model
• PART 2: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES
• Transform, Reform, Reaffirm
• PART 3: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN PRACTICE
• Secure their Foundations
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index.