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Transformative learning : educational vision for the 21st century / Edmund O'Sullivan ; foreword by Thomas Barry.

By: O'Sullivan, Edmund, 1938-.
Publisher: London ; New York : New York : Zed Books ; Distributed in USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1999Description: xv, 304 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1856496996 (pbk. ).Subject(s): Critical pedagogy | Environmentalism | Education -- Economic aspects | Postmodernism and educationDDC classification: 370.115
Contents:
Acknowledgements. - Foreword by Thomas Berry. - Prologue. - Part One: Survive. - 1. Education in a period of historical decline. - Part Two: Critique. - 2. education and the dilemmas of modernism: towards an ecozovic vision. - 3. Modernism: the eclipse of cosmology and the loss of the view of the whole. - 4. Ringing in our ears and invading our souls: reflection on the dtream structure of our western cultural mantras. - 5. Dimensions of power: education for peace, social justice and diversity. - Part Three: Create. - 6. The planetary context of creativity: educational vision in a cosmological context. - 7. Education for integral development. - 8. Quality of life education: transformative ecozoic vision. - Epilogue. - Bibliography. - Index.
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"An OISE/UT book published in association with University of Toronto Press."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-296) and index.

Acknowledgements. - Foreword by Thomas Berry. - Prologue. - Part One: Survive. - 1. Education in a period of historical decline. - Part Two: Critique. - 2. education and the dilemmas of modernism: towards an ecozovic vision. - 3. Modernism: the eclipse of cosmology and the loss of the view of the whole. - 4. Ringing in our ears and invading our souls: reflection on the dtream structure of our western cultural mantras. - 5. Dimensions of power: education for peace, social justice and diversity. - Part Three: Create. - 6. The planetary context of creativity: educational vision in a cosmological context. - 7. Education for integral development. - 8. Quality of life education: transformative ecozoic vision. - Epilogue. - Bibliography. - Index.