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1. Verfasser:	Michelson, Elana (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2015
Schlagworte:	Adult learning / Social aspects Experiential learning / Social aspects Feminist theory PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology SCIENCE / Cognitive Science Feminismus Gesellschaft Experiential learning > Social aspects Adult learning > Social aspects
Beschreibung:	Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Credits list; Introduction; PART I The politics of experience; 1 Purging the transgressive from experiential learning; 2 Gender, reason, and the universal knower; 3 Othering rationality; PART II Gender, experience, and the body; 4 Body, culture, and the feminist claims for experience; 5 The body in question; 6 Mind and matter: Dewey, Kolb, and embodied knowing; PART III Power and the assessment of experiential learning; 7 Conservatism and transgression in the assessment of experiential learning 8 Queering the assessment of experiential learning9 Practice studies, complexity, and the assessment of experiential learning; PART IV Narrating the self; 10 Autobiography and adult learning; 11 Textualizing the self: genre, experience, and adult learning; 12 The ghosts of war: trauma, narrative, and adult learning; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index In this wide-ranging book, Elana Michelson invites us to revisit basic understandings of the 'experiential learner'. How does experience come to be seen as the basis of knowledge? How do gender, class, and race enter into the ways in which knowledge is valued? What political and cultural belief systems underlie such practices as the assessment of prior learning and the writing of life narratives? Drawing on a range of disciplines, from feminist theory and the politics of knowledge to literary criticism, Michelson argues that particular understandings of 'experiential learning' have been centra
Beschreibung:	233 pages
ISBN:	9781317485513 1317485513