Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness: Selected Transformative Practices b

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The editors of this collection make several challenges to the existing field of transformative learning - the first is to theoreticians, who have attempted to describe the nature of transformative learning without regard to the content of transformative learning.

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Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and with the natural world; our understanding of relations of power in interlocking structures of class, race and gender; our body awarenesses; our visions of alternative approaches to living; and our sense of possibilities for social justice and peace and personal joy. The editors of this collection make several challenges to the existing field of transformative learning - the first is to theoreticians, who have attempted to describe the nature of transformative learning without regard to the content of transformative learning. The editors argue that transformative learning theory cannot be constructed in a content-neutral or context-free way. Their second challenge, which assumes the importance content for transformative learning, is to educators as practitioners. The editors argue that transformative learning requires new educational practices consistent with the content. Arts-based research and arts-based teaching/learning practices are one example of such new educational practices. Education for the soul, or spiritual practices such as meditation or modified martial arts or indigenous peoples' forms of teaching/learning, is another example. Each article in the collection presents a possible model of these new practices.

Author Biography

EDMUND V. O'SULLIVAN is the Director of the Transformative Learning Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, at the University of Toronto.AMISH MORRELL is a doctoral candidate, OISE, University of Toronto.MARY ANN O'CONNOR is a doctoral candidate, OISE, University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Glimpses of an Ecological Consciousness - Edmund V. O'Sullivan and Marilyn M. Taylor * Educational Ecologies and Embodied Knowledge * Transformative Learning for Bioregional Citizenship - Laurent A. Parks Daloz * Learning Ecology: Experiences from Social Ecology in Australia - Stuart Hill, Steve Wilson and Kevin Watson * Leadership Education in a Socio-Ecological Perspective: Working at the Paradigmatic Interface - Don W. deGuerre and Marilyn M. Taylor * The Ecology of Learning and Work: Learning for Transformative Work Practices - Marilyn Laiken * Learning through Engagement in the Life World * A Pueblo Story for Transformation - Gregory Cajete * Midwifing Transformative Change * Nurturing the Internal Flame: How Environmentalist Sustain their Commitment to Work - Jessica Kovan and John Dirkx * A Transformation Model for Passion in the Workplace - Patricia Boverie and Michael Kroth * The Dynamic Relation of Personal Agency in Community Context * Personal and Social Transformation: A Complementary Process toward an Ecological Consciousness - Yuka Hashimoto * Holding Flames: Women Illuminating Knowledge of s/Self Transformation - Eimear O'Neill * From Intersubjective Therapy to Esprit Networking: Mapping a Social Process - Barbara Dewar and Sandra Campbell * Fostering Ways-of-Giving within Communities - Valerie Petrie * Transformative Rungs on Wisdom's Ladder - Merriam Bleyl and Patricia Boverie

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In their latest book, Edmund O'Sullivan and Marilyn M. Taylor highlight the pedagogical practices that foster transformation from our current way of thinking about our place in the world to an underlying ecological way of seeing and acting. Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness offers the reader a selection of transformative practices that demonstrate, in specific contexts, the complex journey and contextual conditions that move us forward towards a deeper realization that we are part of the world around us, holding a greater promise for deeper ecological awareness. To this end, thirteen chapters offer a rich array of practices in diverse life settings--educational environments, communities and workplaces and personal relationships. Contributors and their material represent a range of cultures, work settings and professions. The aspect of O'Sullivan and Taylor's new book that distinguishes it from other books in the field is its exploration of how consciousness can be transformed through practices, experience and action.

Details ISBN1403963045 Language English ISBN-10 1403963045 ISBN-13 9781403963048 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 304.2 Year 2004 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Gordonsville Country of Publication United States Short Title LEARNING TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL Subtitle Selected Transformative Practices Edited by E. O'Sullivan Illustrations VI, 266 p. Edition 2004th DOI 10.1604/9781403963048 UK Release Date 2004-01-17 AU Release Date 2004-01-17 NZ Release Date 2004-01-17 US Release Date 2004-01-17 Author E. O'Sullivan Pages 266 Publisher Palgrave USA Edition Description 2004 ed. Publication Date 2004-01-17 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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