Emergent Learning for Wisdom

by Taylor, Marilyn M.

• ISBN13: 9780230603677
• ISBN10: 023060367X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in fundamentally different ways. Meeting these challenges requires not only the creation of knowledge but the development of wisdom.This book draws together forty years of scholarship and practice, along with original research, to catalyze our expertise in learning about what we don't know.As evident from the perspective of the learner, a pattern of four distinctive phases of experience a specific sequence of cognitive, affective, and relationship features can generate an enhanced perspective out of confusion and lead to wisdom in action.

Author Biography

Marilyn M. Taylor is a Professor in the School of Leadership Studies and Director of the Todd Thomas Institute for Values-Based Leadership at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. She was also a Professor in the Applied Human Sciences Department at Concordia University. Taylor's practice and publications are in the domain of innovative approaches to leadership and learning along with post-secondary education and organizational change. She co-edited Learning toward an Ecological Consciousness with Edmund O'Sullivan, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Table of Contents

A Twenty-first Century Learning Agenda: Challenges and Possibilities * Learning in the Twenty-first Century: Embedded, Emergent, and Embodied * Emergent Learning from an Inside-Out Perspective * Converging Perspectives on Emergent Learning * Leading Ourselves: Cultivating Personal Practices for Emergent Learning * Global Imperatives, Emergent Learning, and Leadership