Deep Learning in a Disorienting World

Shows how deep learning is a way to address the toxicity of social polarization.

List of contents

1. Why deep learning is so important ... and so hard; 2. How we learn: a short primer; 3. Mindful learning; 4. Constructive disorientation; 5. Critical reflection; 6. The importance of others; 7. The influence of politics on deep learning; 8. Constructive disorientation through the arts; 9. The art of maintaining essential tensions; 10. Cultivating a deep learning mindset.

About the author

Jon F. Wergin is Professor of Education Studies at the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, Antioch University, Ohio . He is also an educational psychologist with a professional background spanning nearly fifty years.

Summary

This book calls upon recent research in learning theory, social psychology, politics, and the arts to show how a deep learning mindset can be developed, in both oneself and others, countering disturbing trends in our increasingly post-truth culture.

Product details

• Authors: Jon F Wergin, Jon F. Wergin, Jon F. (Antioch University Wergin, Wergin Jon F.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108480222
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48022-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, humanistic psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Humanistic