Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness : Selected Transformative Practices / edited by E. O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Sullivan, Edmund V.

Taylor, Marilyn M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Econometrics.

Educational sociology.

Sociology of Education.

Local Subjects:

Econometrics.

Sociology of Education.

Physical Description:

vi, 266 p.

Edition:

1st ed. 2004.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In their latest book, Edmund O'Sullivan and Marilyn 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 Towards 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 setting 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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowlegments

Contributors

Introduction

1. The Project and Vision of Transformative Education: Integral Transformative Learning

2. What Is Curriculum Anyway?

3. Feminist Perspectives on Globalization and Integrative Transformative Learning

4. The Right to a New Utopia: Adult Learning and the Changing World of Work in an Era of Global Capitalism

5. From Opposition to Alternatives: Postindustrial Potentials and Transformative Learning

6. Transformative Learning and Transformative Politics: The Pedagogical Dimension of Participatory Democracy and Social Action

7. The Signature of the Whole: Radical Interconnectedness and Its Implications for Global and Environmental Education

8. Learning from a Spiritual Perspective

9. The Labyrinth: Site and Symbol of Transformation

10. Spiritual Knowing and Transformative Learning

11. African Women and Spirituality: Connections between Thought and Education

12. Journey of Our Spirits: Challenges for Adult Indigenous Learners

13. Toward Transformative Learning: Ecological Perspectives for Adult Education

14. Transforming the Ecology of Violence: Ecology, War, Patriarchy, and the Institutionalization of Violence

15. Transformative Learning and Cultures of Peace

16. Transforming Research: Possibilities for Arts-Informed Scholarship?

17. On Speaking Terms Again: Transformation of the Human-Earth Relationship through Spontaneous Painting

18. Traces and Transformation: Photographic Ambiguity and Critical Histories

19. Transformative Learning and New Paradigm Scholarship

20. The Transformative Power of Creative Dissent: The Raging Grannies' Legacy

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611369118

9780312295073

0312295073

9781349635504

1349635502

9781349731787

1349731781

9781281369116

128136911X

9781403982384

1403982384

OCLC:

560468163