Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century - Softcover

O'Sullivan, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802083099 ISBN 13: 9780802083098

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 1999

Synopsis

As we witness the burgeoning of a global economy, it is unsurprising to learn that the manner in which we are taught is increasingly shaped by the demands of the marketplace. Edmond O'Sullivan examines modern education and proposes a visionary transformation of this century's pedagogy. Transforming Learning confronts the current market forces that are moving education in the direction of a narrow-sighted vision of 'training in competitiveness.' Rather than supporting the notion of competition, O'Sullivan argues that the process of learning should espouse a global understanding of Earth as a habitat of interdependent life forms.In his exploration of the foundational levels of education, O'Sullivan incorporates scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including: anthropology, post-colonial studies, ecology, cosmology, political theory, feminist theory, media studies, chaos and morphic resonance theory, and the new physics. The breadth of the study is extensive, thus exemplifying O'Sullivan's radical aim to revise the way in which we live and learn in our world.

About this title

About the Author

Edmund O’Sullivan is coordinator of the Transformative Learning Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Review

“One of the most far-reaching, compelling books on education and educational reform that I have read in a decade.” —Henry Giroux, Penn State University

“Once every so often a book appears that offers deep insight and establishes a new level of understanding.” —Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0802083099
• ISBN 13: 9780802083098
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 368