Education's Ecosystems
Learning through Life
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2020
194 pages
979-8-7651-7021-2 (ISBN)
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Education's Ecosystems offers a new perspective on learning that is integrated and connected to lived experience. It presents a model for salient characteristics of both biological and pedagogical ecosystems, involving diversity, interaction, emergence, construction, interpretation. Examples from around the world show how learning can be made more whole and relevant. The book should be valuable to educators, parents, policy makers, and anyone interested in democratic education.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Bertram C. Bruce has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is currently a Professor Emeritus in Information Science at the University of Illinois. He has worked on education in many countries, across grade levels, and in diverse areas of the curriculum. His work contributes to a tradition of democratic education, asking "How can we guide the educational enterprise by an ethical vision, not simply a technocratic one of transmitting isolated facts and skills?"
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ecosystem Learning Framework
Chapter 2: The Whole Frog
Chapter 3: Why Do We Educate?
Chapter 4: Diversity in Ways to Learn
Chapter 5: Networking
Chapter 6: Emergent Properties
Chapter 7: Finding and Constructing Learning Niches
Chapter 8: Interpretation of Learning Spaces
Chapter 9: Education's Ecosystem
Chapter 10: The Ecosystem Curriculum
Conclusion
Captions
Notes
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ecosystem Learning Framework
Chapter 2: The Whole Frog
Chapter 3: Why Do We Educate?
Chapter 4: Diversity in Ways to Learn
Chapter 5: Networking
Chapter 6: Emergent Properties
Chapter 7: Finding and Constructing Learning Niches
Chapter 8: Interpretation of Learning Spaces
Chapter 9: Education's Ecosystem
Chapter 10: The Ecosystem Curriculum
Conclusion
Captions
Notes
