Comments on: Transformative Learning & FOC08 http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/transformative-learning-and-foc08/ Educational Research + (Virtual) Identity in Postmodernity Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:45:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: William http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/transformative-learning-and-foc08/comment-page-1/#comment-2293 William Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:10:58 +0000 http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/foc08-and-transformative-learning/#comment-2293 To engage with scholars and practitioners on the latest in Transformative Learning Theory, please visit the official conference website for the 8th International Transformative Learning Conference at: http://www.transformativelearningbermuda.com Thank you. To engage with scholars and practitioners on the latest in Transformative Learning Theory, please visit the official conference website for the 8th International Transformative Learning Conference at:

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]]> By: Jeffrey Keefer http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/transformative-learning-and-foc08/comment-page-1/#comment-1545 Jeffrey Keefer Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:19:22 +0000 http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/foc08-and-transformative-learning/#comment-1545 @Illya You know, Illya, I think what you described about how kids accept technology and the like has always been the approach that each new generation had. Everything from dancing like Elvis to the Beatles to color tv to hair bands--young people grow up (often) without enough of a frame of reference to believe anything could be different. Ever. This becomes tremendously problematic when, as adults, we still see the world in the same way. Politics, economics, religion, literature, technology, culture--I do not think it matters; if we see the complexities of the world with its almost endless possibilities in the same way as we always have, I wonder how much growth and maturation happens. This is especially problematic with educators . . . @Illya

You know, Illya, I think what you described about how kids accept technology and the like has always been the approach that each new generation had. Everything from dancing like Elvis to the Beatles to color tv to hair bands–young people grow up (often) without enough of a frame of reference to believe anything could be different. Ever.

This becomes tremendously problematic when, as adults, we still see the world in the same way. Politics, economics, religion, literature, technology, culture–I do not think it matters; if we see the complexities of the world with its almost endless possibilities in the same way as we always have, I wonder how much growth and maturation happens.

This is especially problematic with educators . . .

]]> By: Jeffrey Keefer http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/transformative-learning-and-foc08/comment-page-1/#comment-1544 Jeffrey Keefer Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:14:49 +0000 http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/foc08-and-transformative-learning/#comment-1544 @Lynn Tveskov Thank you, Lynn, for the feedback; I appreciate it. @Lynn Tveskov

Thank you, Lynn, for the feedback; I appreciate it.

]]> By: Illya http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/transformative-learning-and-foc08/comment-page-1/#comment-1543 Illya Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:04:31 +0000 http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/foc08-and-transformative-learning/#comment-1543 Jeffrey, this is a process I felt most strongly in the EVO session OpenwebPublishing with Bee in 2007. I think that by learning to accept alternative perspectives, we give oursleves more depth of being (not just learning), but the way to opening up for this kind of process can be painful. I see my kids living in the digital world, accepting certain changes as given, yet they are also in a mind set and are often more than a little inflexible and unwilling to accept different approaches, ideas or thinking outside of the box. If kids are like this already, how hard it becomes as an adult who has stuck with just one way of thinking, learning, communicating, etc to make this change! Jeffrey, this is a process I felt most strongly in the EVO session OpenwebPublishing with Bee in 2007.
I think that by learning to accept alternative perspectives, we give oursleves more depth of being (not just learning), but the way to opening up for this kind of process can be painful.
I see my kids living in the digital world, accepting certain changes as given, yet they are also in a mind set and are often more than a little inflexible and unwilling to accept different approaches, ideas or thinking outside of the box.

If kids are like this already, how hard it becomes as an adult who has stuck with just one way of thinking, learning, communicating, etc to make this change!

]]> By: Lynn Tveskov http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/transformative-learning-and-foc08/comment-page-1/#comment-1542 Lynn Tveskov Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:52:23 +0000 http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2008/09/15/foc08-and-transformative-learning/#comment-1542 Beautiful, Jeffrey. Beautiful, Jeffrey.

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