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Reimagining adult education as world building : creating learning ecologies for transformation / edited by Aliki Nicolaides, Ahreum Lim, Neal Herr and Trisha Barefield

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New York : Routledge, 2024.
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1 online resource
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Nicolaides, Aliki, Lim, Ahreum, Herr, Neal, and Barefield, Trisha
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Ruptures in adult education / Aliki Nicolaides, Trisha Barefield, Ahreum Lim, Neal Herr -- Rethinking pragmatism through world building as a research method / Ahreum Lim -- Reducing polarization through informal facilitators of learning / Sara Jane Blackman, Trisha Barefield, Leslyn Beckles -- Beyond the learning curve: the roughness of learning / Jill K. Jinks, Karen E. Watkins -- Utilizing world building to explore vaccine hesitancy / Heather Lindell -- Decolonizing adult education: an imagined potential / Nina M. Johnson, Elizabeth Osborn-Kibbe, Tina Rousselot de Saint Céran -- Iteration, creation, and frustration: student perspectives on world building in the classroom / Trisha Barefield -- Half-baked and muddling through: a critical collaborative autoethnography of a minor pedagogy / Neal Herr -- (Re)imagining adult education as ecologies of transformation / Trisha Barefield, Aliki Nicolaides, Neal Herr, Ahreum Lim.
Summary
"Reimagining Adult Education as Worldbuilding offers a new way of thinking about adult education by reenvisaging how adult education works. It explores how the process of worldbuilding, or the invention of a new world or a set of concepts, can be translated into actual and feasible action when turning towards complex, real-life problems. Cultivating contexts where adult educators can become change agents, who recognize that the individual and community are intricately entangled, demands that educators grow new capacities, make new tools, develop thicker networks, and cultivate intentional links amongst each other to foster ecologies of transformation. This book shows how educators can create an ecology or environment for transformative thinking where students can learn to collaborate and use worldbuilding tools to create new responses to current issues. It begins by explaining the philosophical underpinnings of worldbuilding and the tools that translate pragmatic imagination into scaffolds for individual and collective capacity building. It also illustrates how the worldbuilding protocol makes a difference in adult learning and how this pedagogical tool introduces the ecological approach to adult education. Each chapter explores a practical case study, showing how learners have applied worldbuilding tools to complex challenges. Showing how to apply the worldbuilding protocol in a classroom setting, this edited collection will be valuable to Adult Education scholars, researchers, practitioners, and learning facilitators"--
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9781003371359 (ebk)
1003371353
9781032442723 (hbk)
9781032435428 (pbk)
9781003860150 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
100386015X (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781003860112 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1003860117 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1032442727
1032435429
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