Working with Experience: Animating Learning

by Boud,David; Boud,David

• ISBN13: 9780415142458
• ISBN10: 0415142458
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

While much is known about teaching and being taught, far less attention has been given to learning in context--in particular, to learning outside the classroom. Yet this is in fact where most learning takes place. One especially neglected area is the role which people, other than the learner, play in facilitating learning. This role is undertaken not only by teachers, trainers, parents and counsellors, but also by managers, supervisors, care-givers and friends. This book brings together the experiences of a number of practitioners who write from often strongly contrasting perspectives and come from a wide range of international backgrounds, including adult, higher and teacher education, community work, organisational development and psychotherapy. Each chapter is grounded not only in professional practice and in theory, but also in personal experience.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(2)
List of contributors	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	3	(24)
1 Animating learning from experience	3	(11)
Nod Miller
David Boud
2 Synthesising traditions and identifying themes in learning from experience	14	(13)
David Boud
Nod Miller
Part 1	27	(34)
3 Helping people learn what they do: breaking dependence on experts	27	(14)
Stephen Brookfield
4 Developing socially critical educators	41	(20)
John Smyth
Part 2	61	(34)
5 Sharing the secrets of perspectives: operating honestly in the classroom	61	(14)
Joyce Stalker
6 Helping whole people learn	75	(20)
John Heron
Part 3	95	(34)
7 Making the difference/teaching the international	95	(18)
Jan Jindy Pettman
8 Using life experience to teach feminist theory	113	(16)
Elizabeth Tisdell
Part 4	129	(28)
9 Building on experience: working with construction workers in Brazil	129	(14)
Timothy Ireland
10 Community empowerment: what happens when a community decides to do things differently	143	(14)
Jim Brown
Part 5	157	(40)
11 Animating learning in teams: a Gestalt approach	157	(14)
John Bernard Harris
12 Writing and power: influence and engagement in adult literacies	171	(13)
Jane Mace
13 Feeling the fear	184	(13)
Bob Johnson
Epilogue	197	(15)
14 Ending with ourselves: reflections on animation and learning	197	(15)
Nod Miller
David Boud
Index	212