Education''s Ecosystems - Learning Through Life

A well-documented case for how integrated, holistic, and democratic education can actually be achieved.

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Ecosystem Learning Framework

Chapter 2: The Whole Frog

Chapter 3: Why Do We Educate?

Chapter 4: Diversity in Ways to Learn

Chapter 5: Networking

Chapter 6: Emergent Properties

Chapter 7: Finding and Constructing Learning Niches

Chapter 8: Interpretation of Learning Spaces

Chapter 9: Education's Ecosystem

Chapter 10: The Ecosystem Curriculum

Conclusion

Captions

Notes

About the author

By Bertram C. Bruce

Summary

A well-documented case for how integrated, holistic, and democratic education can actually be achieved.

Additional text

Bruce argues for a conception of school as embedded within, and an integral component of, the communities in which we live.

Bruce suggests “If learning is truly open to the world, the teacher doesn't have to, cannot, know it all. Instead, she or he becomes a fellow explorer, possibly a knowledgeable guide, but not the final answer to anything.”

Bruce is an artful questioner and Education’s Ecosystem: Learning Through Life tackles many questionable assumptions on education. It could easily be titled ‘questions for educators - other ways of thinking about school and community’.

Bruce argues consistently that education happens in the community. He takes us beyond the near and the obvious. We are presented, quite literally, with a global perspective, an ecosystem of education that may be embraced and nurtured for learning about the world.

Product details

• Authors: Bertram C Bruce, Bertram C. Bruce, Bruce Bertram C.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781475851199
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-5119-9
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Curriculum planning & development, EDUCATION / Teaching / General