Beyond Learning by Doing

2012-03-22 Education

Author : Jay W. Roberts
Release : 2012-03-22
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Beyond Learning by Doing written by Jay W. Roberts. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION "This book brings a thoughtful and refreshing perspective on experiential education. Educators interested in outdoor learning, service learning, and place-based learning will find in Roberts' analysis a critical understanding of what learning by doing means." Dilafruz Williams, Portland State University What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents. As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety of curriculum projects from outdoor and environmental education to service learning and place-based education. While each of these sub-fields has its own history and particular approach, they draw from the same progressive intellectual taproot. Each, in its own way, evokes the power of "learning by doing" and "direct experience" in the educational process. By unpacking the assumed homogeneity in these terms to reveal the underlying diversity of perspectives inherent in their usage, this book allows readers to see how the approaches connect to larger conversations and histories in education and social theory, placing experiential education in social and historical context. Combining a critical philosophical approach with practical examples from the field, Beyond Learning by Doing gives readers both an excellent summary of the theoretical histories of experiential education and a thesis-driven argument about the current state of the field and its future possibilities and limitations Jay W. Roberts is Associate Professor of Education and Environmental Studies, Earlham College"-- Provided by publisher.

Beyond Learning by Doing

2009 Education

Author : Jay W. Roberts
Release : 2009
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Beyond Learning by Doing written by Jay W. Roberts. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation considers several distinctive theoretical currents of experience within the intersecting fields of outdoor, environmental, and experiential education. I argue that, to date, too little work has been undertaken interrogating the usage of the term "experiential" theoretically and philosophically. This has resulted in a relatively homogeneous and simple construction of the role of experience in these particular curriculum projects. As a result, much of the related theoretical, scholarly, and popular work equates "learning by doing" and experiential education, misrepresenting both the complexity and the level of "contestation" in the theoretical history of experience in education. In an attempt to begin to go beyond the taken for granted notion of "learning by doing," I articulate three main currents of experience evoked within these projects under the chapter headings: experience and the social, experience and the individual, and experience and the political. Each of the three currents is discussed in terms of their defining characteristics and the promises and challenges of their various constructions of experience. I argue further that each of these currents is threatened by the rise of a fourth variation. This current neatly combines market logics of efficiency, standardization, and control through a rationalization and commodification of experience in education. I discuss this process under the chapter heading: Experience and the Market. Finally, I conclude with a discussion of the implications of a more theoretically complicated and robust explication of experiential education, pointing to the inherent contradictions and fundamental difficulties in defining this relatively new field. Despite these flaws (or perhaps because of them), I call for, in the words of Maxine Greene "imagining how things might be otherwise" in experiential education by emphasizing a notion of experience that draws from a Deweyian sense of becoming, indeterminacy, and democratic aspiration.

Beyond Lean

2016-01-27 Business & Economics

Author : Peter Béndek
Release : 2016-01-27
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 456/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Beyond Lean written by Peter Béndek. This book was released on 2016-01-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Peter Béndek presents a strong case against the current practice of business operations improvement, based on numerous studies from the business world as well as insights from the most prestigious authors of the last fifty years. The author contests the applicability and indeed the relevance of the Toyota Production System and its spin-offs to the Western context, claiming that a revised approach is much better suited to taking our specific cultural conditions into account, while also combining increased transparency, speed, and sustainability of change with a robust value-creating capability. Dr. Béndek argues that this approach can have a far-reaching impact on corporate cultures by offering an all-encompassing learning system, one that provides a more coherent and actionable continuous improvement strategy than conventional approaches. The book offers an important guide to rethinking operations management, both in academia and business practice.

Beyond Learning

2015-11-17 Education

Author : Gert J. J. Biesta
Release : 2015-11-17
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 162/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Beyond Learning written by Gert J. J. Biesta. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically open question; a question that can only be answered by engaging in education rather than as a question that needs to be answered before we can educate. The book provides a different way to understand and approach education, one that focuses on the ways in which human beings come into the world as unique individuals through responsible responses to what and who is other and different. Beyond Learning raises important questions about pedagogy, community and educational responsibility, and helps educators of children and adults alike to understand what a commitment to a truly democratic education entails.

101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom

2015-04-27 Business & Economics

Author : Elaine Biech
Release : 2015-04-27
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 981/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book 101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom written by Elaine Biech. This book was released on 2015-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh, creative strategies guaranteed to enliven online training 101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom provides proven, practical strategies, activities, and tips for those tasked with facilitating training in any subject area among alternative settings. Based on the best-selling Active Training approach, these methods have been designed by recognized experts, and are guaranteed to enliven any learning event. Readers will find a toolkit of ready-to-use exercises and tips for organizing, conducting, and delivering active learning, in alternative settings on the job or around the world. The book is organized in a way that allows trainers to quickly and easily identify strategies that hold the most promise for specific situations. Each strategy is illustrated with a case example that demonstrates the concepts in action. Two hundred tips organized in twenty how-to lists will prove invaluable for using Twitter, coaching virtually, encouraging informal learning, opening interactive virtual learning sessions, and much more. Coverage includes best practices for social media and informal learning, common e-learning tools, as well as guidance toward using a full gamut of tools from gamification and simulation to serious games and m-learning. Active training encourages participants to use their brains to study ideas, solve problems, and apply what they've learned. It's a fast-paced, fun, supportive, and personally engaging environment. This book shows training facilitators the proven techniques that help learners get more out of the material. Design a more engaging learning environment Improve delivery with optimized technology Utilize effective learning tools and practical strategies Learn best practices for social media, coaching, virtual learning, and more Learners need to figure things out by themselves, ask questions, practice skills, and transfer skills and knowledge to the job. With proven strategies designed by industry leaders, 101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom is the indispensable guide to the design and delivery of effective alternative ways to learn.

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