| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 119 pages :) illustration |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Teaching, Learning, And Storytelling -- Higher Education as Culture and Subcultures: Stories That Go On and On -- Recognizing Cultural Beliefs: It All Seems So Normal ... -- Why Call This Belief System a Story? What Is Your Perspective on Perspectives? -- Becoming Aware of Beliefs and Wondering Where They Lead Us -- 2. Life Beyond The Fishbowl: The Grand Narrative, Academic Disciplines, And Deep Learning -- How This Fishbowl Developed -- Why Do I Need to Know This? -- Getting Out Of the Fishbowl -- Story of Your Discipline or Area of Expertise -- Integrated Inquiry and Deep Learning -- Do Students Care? Exchanging Fishbowls and Supporting Deep Learning -- Note -- 3. Everybody Learns, Some Teach -- Learning, Reflection, and Experience -- Learning in Your Discipline or Area of Expertise -- Teaching the Way People Learn -- Personal and the Impersonal: Is This a Binary or an Iterative Process? -- Learning to Be a Contributing Member of Family and Community -- Pedagogical Conundra and Personal Reflection -- What's the Point? -- 4. Entr'acte: Is "Teach" A Transitive Verb? -- What's the Point? -- Students, Learning, and Development -- 5. Self-Authorship: A New Narrative Of Learning -- Student Story -- Cartesian Split and the Twenty-First-Century Connection -- Another Student Story -- Self-Authorship and the Construction of Knowledge -- Classroom Dialogue -- Self-Authorship Is Often a Confusing and Painful Process -- What's the Point? -- My Moment of Insight -- More Serious Insight -- 6. Professional Boundaries And Skills: Searching For Meaning Is Not Counseling -- Self-Authorship and the Creation of a Personal Narrative -- Self-Authorship, Personal Narrative, and Counseling: What's the Difference? -- Group Skills: A Focus on Process -- Mindfulness and Contemplation: A Focus on Meaning -- What's the Point? -- 7. Curriculum, General Education, And The Grand Narrative -- General Education, Weil-Rounded Students, and Poetic Insights -- Looking at the Fishbowl, Not Through It -- Organizing the General Education Curriculum for Self-Authorizing Learning -- Different Ways of Organizing Curricula -- In the Rabbit Hole Almost Anything Can Make Sense -- Create Your Own Rabbit Hole -- Now What? -- 8. Assessment: Documenting Learning From Alternate Perspectives -- Peter Troiano -- Assessment Process -- Operationalizing Assessment in All Its Complexities -- Inevitability of Assessment in the Current Environment -- CONCLUSION ... Well, Maybe Not -- APPENDIX A WORKING IN GROUPS AND FACILITATING DISCUSSIONS -- Group Composition -- Group Process Issues -- Group Facilitation Skills (for the Professor) -- Resources -- Assessment -- APPENDIX B CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES FOR CLASSROOM USE -- What Are Contemplative Practices? |
| Summary |
"This book questions some of our most ingrained assumptions, not only about the nature of teaching and learning, but about what constitutes education, and about the cultural determinants of what is taught. What if who you think you are profoundly affects what and how you learn? Since Descartes, teachers in the Western tradition have dismissed the role of self in learning. What if our beliefs about self and learning are wrong, and relevance of knowledge to self actually enhances learning, as current research suggests? Jane Fried deconstructs the Grand Western Narrative of teaching and learning, describing it is a cultural fishbowl through which we see the world, rarely aware of the fishbowl itself, be it disciplinary constructs or the definition of liberal education. She leads us on a journey to question "the way things are"; to attend to the personal narratives of others from ethnic, racial and faith groups different from ourselves; to rediscover self-authorship as the core task of learning in college; and to empower ourselves and students to navigate the disorientation of the Alice in Wonderland rabbit holes of modern life. This is a book for all educators concerned about the purpose of college and of the liberal arts in the 21st century, and what it is we should reasonably expect students to learn. Jane Fried both upends many received ideas and offers constructive insights based on science and evidence, and does so in an engaging way that will stimulate reflection." -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-107) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
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Education, Humanistic.
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Education and globalization.
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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Education and globalization
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy
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Education, Humanistic
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015026438 |
| ISBN |
9781620364192 |
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1620364190 |
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9781620364208 |
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1620364204 |
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1620364212 |
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9781620364215 |
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