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

O'Sullivan, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802083099 ISBN 13: 9780802083098

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 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.

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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.

Edition details

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