Transformative Education Through International Service-Learning: Realising an Ethical Ecology of Learning

ISBN-13: 9781138923607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 218 str.

Philip M. Bamber

Opis

Transformative learning is a compelling approach to learning that is becoming increasingly popular in a diverse range of educational settings and encounters. This book reconceptualises transformative learning through an investigation of the learning process and outcomes of International Service-Learning (ISL), a pedagogical approach that blends student learning with community engagement overseas and the development of a more just society. Drawing upon key philosophers and theorists, Bamber offers an integrated, multi-dimensional approach, linking transformative learning to the development of the authentic self, and analysing the aesthetic, moral and relational dimensions of ISL in an increasingly globalized world. Chapters explore rich empirical data to provide a timely framework and ethical ecology of transformative learning, detailing the challenges facing the approach, and how it can be embedded at the levels of practice, institutional ethos and partnership."

Transformative Learning through International Service-Learning" will appeal to academics, researchers, teachers, instructors and leaders in the fields of service-learning, international education, character education and in adult learning and education. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in international education, development education, volunteering, service-learning and community engagement.

Spis treści

Part 1: Transformative Learning  Towards an Integrative Model of Transformative Learning.  The Knowing, Being and Doing of Transformation.  The Centrality of Authenticity to Transformative Learning  Part 2: International Service-Learning  Key Concepts and Practices in International Service-Learning.  The Student Experience of International Service-Learning  Part 3: Transformative Learning as the Process of Becoming Authentic Authenticity as Selfhood: Becoming Oneself [Integrity].  Authenticity as Reciprocity: Becoming Persons-in-Relation [Recognition].  Authenticity as Worldliness: Becoming Other-Wise [Cosmopolitanism]  Part 4: An Ethical Ecology of Transformative Learning  Towards an Ethical Ecology of Transformative Learning.

O autorze

Philip M. Bamber is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Liverpool Hope University, where he is Head of the Department of Education Studies. He was awarded the International Association of University Presidents' 2013 International Education Faculty Achievement Award for leadership in research and teaching in global citizenship. He is co-editor (with L. Bourke and J. Clarkson) of In Safe Hands: Facilitating service learning in schools in the developing world (Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham, 2008) and is currently Associate Director of TEESNet, the UK Teacher Education for Equity and Sustainability Network. His papers on global citizenship and values in education can be found in Education, Citizenship and Social Justice; Journal of Beliefs and Values; Journal of Curriculum Studies and Journal of Transformative Education.