TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gidley,Jennifer
TI  - Postformal education: a philosophy for complex futures 
T2  - Critical studies of education
SN  - 3319290681
AV  - LB14.7 .G53 2016
U1  - 370.1 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Switzerland
PB  - Springer
KW  - Education
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction -- Part I. An evolutionary approach to education -- 2. Cultural evolution: past, present and putures -- 3. Psychological development: child and adolescent -- 4. Evolving education: pre-formal and formal -- Part II. Postformal psychology and education: a dialogue -- 5. Postformal in psychology: beyond piaget’s formal operations -- 6. Postformal in education: beyond the formal factory model -- 7. A boundary-crossing dialogue of postformal futures -- Part III. An evolving postformal education philosophy -- 8. Pedagogical love: an evolutionary force -- 9. Pedagogical life: a sustaining force -- 10. Pedagogical wisdom: a creative force -- 11. Pedagogical voice: an empowering force -- 12. Meta-reflections -- Name index -- Subject index
N2  - "This book explains why the current education model, which was developed in the 19th century to meet the needs of industrial expansion, is obsolete. It points to the need for a new approach to education designed to prepare young people for global uncertainty, accelerating change and unprecedented complexity.The book offers a new educational philosophy to awaken the creative, big-picture and long-term thinking that will help equip students to face tomorrow’s challenges. Inside, readers will find a dialogue between adult developmental psychology research on higher stages of reasoning and today’s most evolved education research and practice. This dialogue reveals surprising links between play and wisdom, imagination and ecology, holism and love. The overwhelming issues of global climate crisis, growing economic disparity and the youth mental health epidemic reveal how dramatically the current education model has failed students and educators. This book raises a planet-wide call to deeply question how we actually think and how we must educate. It articulates a postformal education philosophy as a foundation for educational futures.The book will appeal to educators, educational philosophers, pre-service teacher educators, educational and developmental psychologists and educational researchers, including postgraduates with an interest in transformational educational theories designed for the complexity of the 21st century." --Publisher's website
ER  -