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Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today
This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, so-called \"self-development.\" Whether prompted by the cultural values of educational success, capitalist competition for wealth, or the Chinese Communist Party's prescriptions for \"good\" citizenship, few people in China are immune to the impetus to \"improve\" themselves and thus bring about a better future. Contributors to this volume, interdisciplinary sinologists, draw on materials from practices in education, labor, and self-help as they spotlight \"keywords\" by which individuals make sense of their selfdevelopment journeys - including new forms of resistance to social norms. Rather than simply classify self-development by different activities or groups, the chapters map together ethical features that cut across Chinese society. Contributors explore the nuanced and ambivalent attitudes towards self-development of individuals navigating various requirements and pursuing more complete forms of existence. In so doing, they offer a snapshot of China that intersects with timely global concerns.
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Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner
How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change? This interesting examination of adult learning for change illustrates through diverse case studies and theoretical perspectives that personal change is inextricably linked to broader organisational and social change. The authors explore how theorising education as a vehicle for self-change is relevant to the practices of educators, learning specialists and others concerned with promoting learning for change. The book examines the relationship between pedagogy, identity and change, and illustrates this through a range of case studies focusing on the following: * Self-help books * Work-based learning * Corporate culture training * AIDS education * Gender education * Sex offender education. A concluding chapter discusses how writing an academic text is itself a pedagogical practice contributing to the identities of authors. This unique text will be of interest to students of education, sociology, cultural studies and change management as well as teachers, educators and professionals involved in lifelong learning or change management in any way.
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Self-taught
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.Self-Taughttraces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended.Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.
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Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners
Children are born learning machines who want to learn and can organize and manage their own learning. Unfortunately, today children have little choice over what they do in school and how and when they do it. Children prepared in this \"other-determined\" manner will be poorly equipped to navigate an adult world requiring that they act autonomously and self-direct learning to acquire skills in rapidly changing environments. In \"Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners,\" Michael Wehmeyer and Yong Zhao explore the how and why of self-determined learning--which emphasizes autonomy and choice, turning over ownership for learning to students by supporting them in engaging in activities that are of personal value to them, thus enabling them to act volitionally. You'll learn: (1) How to promote self-determined learning in your classroom or school; (2) The importance of autonomy supports, competence supports, and relatedness supports; (3) Conditions that enable self-determined learning; (4) Teaching strategies for self-determined learning; (5) Assessment strategies in self-determined learning; and (6) The role of technology in self-determined learning. The practical strategies, case studies, advice, and resources here will help you help your students to motivate themselves and become self-determined learners.
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Self-Determined Learning
Heutagogy, or self-determined learning, redefines how we understand learning and provides some exciting opportunities for educators. It is a novel approach to educational practice, drawing on familiar concepts such as constructivism, capability, andragogy and complexity theory. Heutagogy is also supported by a substantial and growing body of neuroscience research. Self-Determined Learning explores how heutagogy was derived, and what this approach to learning involves, drawing on recent research and practical applications. The editors draw together contributions from educators and practitioners in different fields, illustrating how the approach can been used and the benefits its use has produced. The subjects discussed include: the nature of learning, heutagogy in the classroom, flexible curriculum, assessment, e-learning, reflective learning, action learning and research, and heutagogy in professional practice settings.
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Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning
Are we preparing students for a life of tests or for the tests of life?Educators agree that the characteristics of self-directed learners are traits that students will need to succeed in school and in life. Accurately assessing the skills and behaviors of self-directed learning is essential in developing life-long, self-initiated learning habits.Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning provides successful methods for assessing students' progress towards becoming self-managing, self-monitoring, and self-modifying learners. Using practical examples drawn from a variety of classrooms and schools, renowned authors Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of continual learning.This hands-on book provides the practical tools that educators need to implement these ideas, including:Classroom activities; Sample rubrics; Forms, portfolios, questions, and checklists; Examples of student workAssessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning offers a more balanced and complete evaluation method that includes classroom-based assessments that complement state-based assessments. Authors Costa and Kallick illustrate the means to develop and cultivate the intellectual dispositions of self-evaluation and self-correction in all students.
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Intimate and Authentic Economies
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Tom Nissley received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He has written for The Stranger and McSweeney's and works as an editor and writer in Seattle.
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Places of learning
This book takes a close look at places of learning located outside of schools, yet deeply concerned with the experience of the learning self. It explores what it might mean to think of pedagogy not in relation to knowledge as a \"thing made,\" but to knowledge in the making.
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Emerson and self-culture
How do I live a good life, one that is deeply personal and sensitive to
others? John T. Lysaker suggests that those who take this question seriously need to
reexamine the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In philosophical reflections on topics
such as genius, divinity, friendship, and reform, Lysaker explores self-culture or
the attempt to remain true to one's deepest commitments. He argues that being true
to ourselves requires recognition of our thoroughly dependent and relational nature.
Lysaker guides readers from simple self-absorption toward a more fulfilling and
responsive engagement with the world.
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