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Jerome Bruner, meaning-making and education for conflict resolution : why how we think matters / Sally Myers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Sally, author.
- Series:
- Emerald Points Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour).
- Bruner, Jerome S.
- Difference (Psychology).
- Educational psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (113 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]
- Summary:
- Myers offers an educational intervention that invites development of representations in response to difference. Presenting a new framework for examining controversy between worldviews and a method for creating space for difference, the book brings this into dialogue with education and research, conflict resolution and religion.
- Contents:
- Cover
- JEROME BRUNER, MEANING MAKING AND EDUCATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
- JEROME BRUNER, MEANING MAKING AND EDUCATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Why How We Think Matters
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- SIMPLE SUMMARY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Jerome Bruner: An Overview of Key Ideas
- 2. Constructing Knowing: Paradigmatic and Narrative Modes of Representation and the Social Context of Meaning-Making
- Paradigmatic Mode of Knowing
- The Narrative Construction of Reality
- The Social Context of Meaning-Making
- Individual versus Social Antinomies
- 3. Minding Challenge: Stances towards New Information and Openness to Change
- Stance towards Challenge in the Paradigmatic Mode of Knowing
- Knowing with the Left Hand
- Stance towards Challenge in the Narrative Mode of Knowing
- Connections between Stance in the Two Modes
- 4. Changing Minds: Narrative Mechanisms of Adaptation
- Canonicity and Breach
- Social Context of Narrative Change
- Changing Stories: Engaging the Process
- 5. A Brunerian Toolkit
- 6. Dialogues
- Education and Research: Conditioning to Creativity
- Conflict Resolution: Resistance to Recognition
- Religious Belief: Fundamentalism to Maturity in Faith
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80071-074-7
- OCLC:
- 1237410255
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