Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning (eBook)

An Autoethnographic Inquiry

Wilma Fraser (Autor)

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2017
223 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-56295-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom - personified here as Sophia - is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses. It includes a review of key historical and classical framings which have lost much potency and relevance as certain cultural narratives hold sway; these include the reductionist, technicist and highly instrumentalist discourses which shape the articulation and delivery of much education policy and practice, whilst reflecting similar troubling framings from broader neoliberal perspectives. Fraser argues that wisdom's marginalisation has had, and continues to have, profoundly deleterious consequences for our educative practices. Through a compelling combination of narrative and autoethnographic techniques, while also drawing on philosophical and cultural traditions, the book pushes at the boundaries of emerging knowledge, including how knowledge is generated. It will be of interest to those who facilitate the learning of adults in a variety of settings as well as to students and supervisors seeking exemplars and 'justification' for working in non-traditional ways. 

Wilma Fraser is an independent researcher and doctoral supervisor at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, where she was previously Faculty Director of Community Arts and Education.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Notes 10
Acknowledgements 11
Contents 13
Notes on the Artist Contributors 16
List of Figures 18
Chapter 1: Introduction 19
A Darkening Present? 19
An Autoethnographic Inquiry 25
Metaphor as Key 29
The Structure of the Book 34
Chapter 2: From Adult Education to Learning and Skills 35
Chapter 3: Searching for Sophia: Wisdom as Paradox 36
Chapter 4: Epiphanies, Ontologies and Epistemologies 36
Chapter 5: In Search of the ‘Genea-Mythic’ 37
Chapter 6: From Mythos to Logos 37
Chapter 7: The Stories That We Tell and Those That Tell Us 37
Chapter 8: Towards a Wise Curriculum 38
Chapter 9: Conclusion 38
Notes 39
Chapter 2: From Adult Education to Learning and Skills 40
Introduction 41
An Autoethnographic Frame 41
From Adult Education to Learning and Skills 45
Learning Democracy? 52
Diminishing Places and Spaces 55
Conclusion 58
Notes 58
Chapter 3: Searching for Sophia: Wisdom as Paradox 60
Introduction 61
‘Accounting for All Things’ 62
Wisdom Literatures 67
‘From Philosophy to Neuroscience’ 69
Wisdom and Adult Learning 75
The Challenge for the Adult Educator 77
Conclusion 82
Notes 83
Chapter 4: Epiphanies, Ontologies and Epistemologies 84
Introduction 85
Chronos and Kairos 85
Ontologies and Epistemologies 89
Veracity and Verisimilitude 91
Notes Towards a Methodology 95
Autoethnography—Promise and Challenge 98
Autoethnography as Method and Methodology 100
Conclusion 101
Notes 104
Chapter 5: In Search of the ‘Genea-Mythic’ 106
Introduction 107
‘Co` leis a tha thu?’: ‘Who Do You Belong To?’ 108
Sorley Maclean and His Poetry 118
Notes Towards the ‘Genea-Mythic’ 123
‘Co` leis a tha thu?’ 129
Conclusion 131
Notes 132
Chapter 6: From Mythos to Logos 134
Introduction 134
Sophia’s ‘Fall’ 136
The Influence of Gnosticism 141
The Triumph of the Church 143
The Rise of Modernity 148
Reclaiming Sophia from Past to Present 153
Notes 154
Chapter 7: The Stories That We Tell and Those That Tell Us 156
Introduction 157
‘Writing as Inquiry’ 160
The Interview ‘Data’: The Nature of the ‘Given’ and the Hermeneutic Circle 161
The ‘Truth’ About Fiction 164
Notes 180
Chapter 8: Towards a Wise Curriculum 181
Introduction 181
‘Men Are Afraid That Women Will Laugh at Them. Women Are Afraid That Men Will Kill Them’2 184
Reclaiming Other Narratives 188
Towards a Wise Curriculum? 190
Revisioning Our Pedagogic Practices 193
Community Arts and Education (CAE) 195
Poesis 196
‘Re-enchanting the Academy’ 197
Theoria/Sophia 199
Notes 199
Chapter 9: Conclusion 201
Notes 208
References 209
Index 227

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XXI, 223 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: adult teaching and learning • Autoethnography • autoethnograpic inquiry • Education Policy • ehtnography • Lifelong Learning • Neoliberalism • Research methods
• ISBN-10: 1-137-56295-1 / 1137562951
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-56295-1 / 9781137562951