Working with Experience: Animating Learning [Paperback]

Every day we are confronted with problems and challenges which we address by drawing on our experience and by using this experience to find ways of learning what to do in new circumstances. Learning through experience is the normal, commonplace approach to learning and we take it for granted. Whilst 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 possibly 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. Such perspectives include feminism, Marxism, critical pedagogy, post-modernism and Gestalt, humanistic, clinical and transpersonal psychology.Whilst much is known about teaching and being taught, less attention is given to the learner in context - in particular, to learning outside the classroom. This book brings together experiences of a number of practitioners.'The strength of the book, however, is in the range of different perspectives (e.g. feminism, critical pedagogy, Gestalt, Marxism) and the determination of the contributors to interrogate their own practice.' - Journal of Education and Work Vol 12:1 1999List of figures, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Epilogue, Nod Miller and David Boud, IndexUS? Selection and editorial material 1996 David Boud and Nod Miller; individual chapters the contributors The lines from An Atlas of the Difficult World, from An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 19881991 by Adrienne Rich; ? 1991 by Adrienne Rich.