Transformative learning for a new worldview: learning to think differently

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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 alternatives to illustrate the process. The primary focus of the book is on transformative learning in mainstream global culture, but the special problems and opportunities for people of post-colonial…

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Title Statements

Full title :Transformative learning for a new worldview : learning to think differently / M.G. Jackson.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Basingstoke
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 216 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230553507, 0230553508
oclc:ocn155679177
LC Classification:LC1100
Dewey Decimal:370.115

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 -- Towards a New Cultural Model -- PART 2: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES -- Transform, Reform, Reaffirm -- PART 3: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN PRACTICE -- Secure their Foundation -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Apprentissage transformateur Apprentissage transformationnel Critical pedagogy Critical thinking Kritische Pädagogik Pädagogik Pédagogie critique Pensée critique Postcolonialisme Postmoderne Postmodernism and education Postmodernisme et éducation Transformative learning