Education's Ecosystems: Learning through Life - Softcover

Bruce, Bertram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475851200 ISBN 13: 9781475851205

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

Education’s Ecosystems offers a new perspective on learning that is integrated and connected to lived experience. It presents a model for salient characteristics of both biological and pedagogical ecosystems, involving diversity, interaction, emergence, construction, interpretation. Examples from around the world show how learning can be made more whole and relevant. The book should be valuable to educators, parents, policy makers, and anyone interested in democratic education.

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About the Author

Bertram C. Bruce is currently a Professor Emeritus in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. His work contributes to a tradition of democratic education, asking “How can we guide the educational enterprise by an ethical vision, not simply a technocratic one of transmitting isolated facts and skills?” His career combines a philosophical perspective with passionate work directly with communities in the US and many other countries throughout the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475851200
• ISBN 13: 9781475851205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 193