Transformative Learning for a New Worldview: Learning to Think Differently

Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Part I: Transformative Learning in Contemporary Global Culture......Page 18
1 Introduction......Page 20
Contradictions, incoherence and confusion in the school classroom......Page 28
An alternative approach to environmental education......Page 31
Gaia theory and cultural transformation......Page 37
Coming to grips with sustainability......Page 42
3 Learning to Think Differently......Page 44
An adequate terminology for learning to think differently......Page 45
An overview of the process......Page 48
Critical elements of the process......Page 50
4 Atoms, People and Other Things......Page 64
The enlightenment answers to the perennial questions......Page 65
Critique......Page 66
5 The Laws of Nature......Page 79
The laws of nature – an overview......Page 80
Understanding the concept of law as immanent through myth......Page 89
6 A Flawed System of Ideas......Page 97
Incoherence......Page 98
Contradiction......Page 99
The origin of the concept of the detached observer......Page 100
The world as a process......Page 104
Everything is radically interconnected with everything else......Page 112
Detached participation......Page 116
8 A Return to the Perennial Questions......Page 119
What is real?......Page 120
What is the world like?......Page 123
A little more about terminology......Page 129
9 Towards a New Cultural Model......Page 133
Community......Page 136
Science......Page 142
An adequate theory of history......Page 152
Part II: Transformative Learning in Post-colonial Societies......Page 160
10 Transform, Reform, Reaffirm......Page 162
The impact of colonialism......Page 163
Interpreting the past, visualising the future......Page 166
A fresh anchorage......Page 178
Part III: Transformative Learning in Practice......Page 180
The process of cultural transformation......Page 182
Priorities today......Page 191
A variety of possible transformative learning exercises......Page 192
The facilitator......Page 194
Some suggestions for planning and conducting transformative learning exercises......Page 197
Suggestions for each step in the transformative learning course......Page 200
Appendix 1 Pesticide Use and Human Health......Page 206
Appendix 2 Pests......Page 209
Notes......Page 212
References......Page 217
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M......Page 227
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W......Page 232
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