The acceptance of reason with uncertainty can help learners successfully manage their occupations and lives during the accelerations prominent in the 21st century. As William Ayers states: "Pritscher tilts his lance at the petrified orthodoxy we call teaching and learning, inviting us on a wild journey into the heart of education."
The book elaborates on David Geoffrey Smiths question: "Why does so much educational research today seem so unenlightening, repetitive and incapable of moving beyond itself? The answer must be because it is paradigmatically stuck, and cannot see beyond the...

This bookilluminates what must always be at the heart of powerful schooling and authentic learning.Its focus is on free learning, with an emphasis on early East Asian thought as a vehicle through which learning may emerge.The volume describes learning ashelping the learnerbecome more conscious, more aware. As such the authors explain howquality learning encompasses all learning that is chosen by the learner. It is non-judgmental and their idea is that if learning is done by choice then direct harm will be mitigated because quality, willed learning is not just about the individual, but...