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What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes
the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we
mean by Fragile Learning? This book addresses these questions in
two ways. In Part One, it looks at challenges to learning,
examining issues such as language invention in a maximum security
prison, geography and bad technology, and pedagogic fragility in
Higher Education. Through a psychoanalytic lens, Fragile Learning
examines authorial illness and the process of slow recovery as a
tool for reflective learning, and explores ethical issues in
problem-based learning. The second part of the book deals
specifically with the problem of online anxiety. From cyberbullying
to Internet boredom, the book asks what the implications for
educational design in our contemporary world might be. It compares
education programmes that insist on the Internet and those that
completely ban it, while exploring conflict, virtual weapons and
the role of the online personal tutor.
What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes
the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we
mean by Fragile Learning? This book addresses these questions in
two ways. In Part One, it looks at challenges to learning,
examining issues such as language invention in a maximum security
prison, geography and bad technology, and pedagogic fragility in
Higher Education. Through a psychoanalytic lens, Fragile Learning
examines authorial illness and the process of slow recovery as a
tool for reflective learning, and explores ethical issues in
problem-based learning. The second part of the book deals
specifically with the problem of online anxiety. From cyberbullying
to Internet boredom, the book asks what the implications for
educational design in our contemporary world might be. It compares
education programmes that insist on the Internet and those that
completely ban it, while exploring conflict, virtual weapons and
the role of the online personal tutor.
This book provides a basic understanding of democratic citizenship
through use of case studies. These case studies illustrate the
extent to which ordinary citizens are controlling their common
future. The book provides theoretical and evidence based findings
on the complexities of citizenship in a capitalistic-republican
setting. It offers new theoretical frameworks on reparation and
democratic citizenship.
How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama's
environmental consciousness. A Movement of the People: The Roots of
Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama is a detailed
history of the Alabama Environmental Quality Association (AEQA).
The AEQA helped to establish groundbreaking environmental
protection and natural resource preservation policies for the state
and the region and grew into one of the nation's most progressive
environmental education efforts. The AEQA began in 1966 with the
relatively simple political action agenda of cleaning up unsightly
and unsanitary roadside trash. These inspired citizens collaborated
with civic leaders to identify and remove illegal rural dumps and
create more regulated landfills statewide. Eventually they became
involved in the i?1/2Keep America Beautifuli?1/2 campaign and with
the US Public Health Service in its attempt to rid the state of the
yellow-fever mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti , which breeds in
standing, fetid water. The acme of these early efforts was the
passage of Alabama's Solid Waste Disposal Law of 1969, one of the
nation's first such bills. The AEQA's dedicated staff and
supporters spearheaded other environmental projects, many of which
remain active today, such as recycling programs with industry
giants throughout the Southeast and the founding of the Bartram
Trail Conference, a multistate initiative to identify and preserve
the path that Quaker botanist William Bartram took through the
territory before its formation into states. Using recorded
interviews with Martha McInnis, executive vice president of the
AEQA, and full access to a meticulously preserved archive of the
organization's papers and artifacts, Katie Lamar Jackson relates
this previously untold story of remarkable i?1/2citizen
activism.i?1/2 A Movement of the People is a valuable account of
the organization's growth and advancement, both economically and
societally, which serves as a blueprint for successful civic
activism and grassroots organizing.
The book is about the joys and frustrations of lifelong learning,
and about what drives us to learn as we move through our years. It
follows the life-in-learning, from birth to death, of a character
that the reader is invited to create. It examines many of life's
important themes-a response to overwhelming choice, the instinct of
self-protection-as they apply to a person's learning journey. Using
a variety of psychoanalytic and philosophical lenses, and using the
Psychic River as a metaphor, the text asks the question of what it
means "to learn" and "to teach". It investigates factors that might
break the fragile process of learning, and explores the complex
motivations behind returning to learning. The book is of interest
to educators and learners, to psychoanalysts and analysands, and to
anyone who has ever wondered what drives us to learn or teach.
What is care? The Care Factory consists of six essays, each of
which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what
care happens to be. Each chapter looks at care in a different
setting, and a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks are employed on
which to hang arguments. The eponymous first chapter investigates
undergraduate courses in nursing and midwifery that have care on
the syllabus. Is it possible to teach care? What if the person
teaching care is not someone who cares?The second chapter is
`Banquet of Crumbs'. If care can be experienced in any setting and
at any time, is there anything that happens to those who care that
we might regard as generic? What does caring do to the
practitioners who care? The focus of `The Breaking of Wings' is
prisons and secure settings for children and adolescents. How do
such institutions endorse and exhibit care? In `Nostalgia's
Engine', the focus is on the care generated by successful group
assimilation and the manufacture of nostalgia. Using the example of
the punk movement of the 1970s, this chapter describes how
organisations offer their participants communities of care,
irrespective of their outward appearance of hostility.`Caring for
Our Creations' is about writing, and about one's responsibilities
for what one drafts into existence. This chapter is not so much
about a narrative of care as the care of a narrative. Finally,
`Take Care: A Coda' represents a lesson on how one cares for
oneself in an atmosphere of tension and bereavement anxiety.
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