{"product_id":"new-significance-of-learning-1","title":"New Significance of Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003eShould education be understood mainly as a practice in its own right, or is it essentially a subordinate affair to be shaped and controlled by a society’s powers-that-be?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat difference does it make if students are chiefly viewed as recipients of a set of skills and knowledge, or as active participants in their own learning? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes education have a responsibility in cultivating humanity’s maturity, or are its purposes to be effectively matched to the functional requirements of a globalized age? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Significance of Learning\u003c\/em\u003e explores these and other high-stakes questions. It challenges hierarchical and custodial conceptions of education that have been inherited as the ‘natural order’ of things. It discloses a more original and imaginative understanding of educational practice, illustrating this understanding with frequent practical examples. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the merits highlighted by this approach are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea recognition that education is first and foremost an invitation to join a renewed experience of quest and disclosure;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea realisation that taking up and pursuing such an invitation is a basic right, as distinct from a privilege to be bestowed or withheld; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ean awareness of the decisive importance of specific kinds relationships in practices of teaching and learning;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ean emphasis on the human qualities as well as the intellectual achievements nourished by dedicated communities of learning;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ean acknowledgement of partiality – of incompleteness and bias – in even the best of humankind’s learning efforts;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe emergence of a distinctive ethical orientation for education as a practice in its own right. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255167209816,"sku":"9780415549677","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415549677.jpg?v=1769543133","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/new-significance-of-learning-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}