Reimagining Adult Education As World Building - Creating Learning Ecologies for Transformation

This book offers a new way of thinking about adult education by reenvisaging how adult education works. It explores how the process of worldbuilding, or the invention of a new world or a set of concepts, can be translated into actual and feasible action when turning towards complex, real-life problems.

Sommario

1. Ruptures in Adult Education 2. Rethinking Pragmatism Through World Building as a Research Method 3. Reducing Polarization Through Informal Facilitators of Learning 4. Beyond the Learning Curve: The Roughness of Learning 5. Utilizing World Building to Explore Vaccine Hesitancy 6. Decolonizing Adult Education: An Imagined Potential 7. Iteration, Creation, and Frustration: Student Perspectives on World Building in the Classroom 8. Half-baked and Muddling Through: A Critical Collaborative Autoethnography of a Minor Pedagogy 9. (Re)Imagining Adult Education as Ecologies of Transformation

Info autore

Aliki Nicolaides is Professor of Adult Learning, Leadership, and Adult Development at the University of Georgia, USA.
Ahreum Lim is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Generative Learning and Complexity Lab at the University of Georgia, USA.
Neal Herr is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Learning, Leadership and Organization Development program at the University of Georgia, USA.
Trisha Barefield is a Doctoral Candidate in the Learning, Leadership and Organization Development program at the University of Georgia, USA.

Riassunto

This book offers a new way of thinking about adult education by reenvisaging how adult education works. It explores how the process of worldbuilding, or the invention of a new world or a set of concepts, can be translated into actual and feasible action when turning towards complex, real-life problems.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aliki Lim Nicolaides
• Con la collaborazione di: Trisha Barefield (Editore), Neal Herr (Editore), Ahreum Lim (Editore), Aliki Nicolaides (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.03.2024
• EAN: 9781032442723
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244272-3
• Pagine: 158
• Serie: American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia scolastica, didattica, metodica; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, EDUCATION / Experimental Methods, teacher training, Teaching skills and techniques, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching skills & techniques, Adult education, continuous learning, Moral & social purpose of education