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Is Transformative Learning the Trojan Horse of Western Globalization?
By requiring learners to re-invent the wheel (renaming) in constructivist learning, learners do not come to recognize the commons (traditions and intergenerational knowledge) that would allow them to act in culturally and ecologically sustainable ways.
"This has the effect of social and eco-justice advocates not wanting to identify themselves with the word conservatism. The result is that both the faux conservatives such as President George W. Bush and the transformative learning theorists support each other in avoiding the question that now needs to be ask in this era of economic and cultural colonization: namely, what do
we need to conserve in order to resist the forces that are increasing poverty around the world and putting future generations at greater risk of an environment that is too contaminated to support a healthy and fulfilling life. The challenge will be for the current generation of transformative learning theorists to recognize how they have been indoctrinated by liberal
ideologues who failed to renew what was viable in the earlier formulations of liberal ideas in ways that address issues related to the diversity of the world’s cultural commons and the
environmental changes that these earlier liberal theorists were unaware of. "
The Strength of Weak Ties
\n <clipping> But what are the characteristics of self-directed learning? What kind of climate and culture must be present in a school to pull that off? Here is my take on what I think those students should be capable of and what that school should be l
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