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Coburn, Thomas B. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter argues that today's dominant forms of education are insufficient for today's world because they ignore the vast and conventionally untapped resource that lies in the disciplined inwardness that is contemplative life. It then surveys a range of transformative examples that are emerging in the educational movement known as…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational Methods, Transformative Learning, Educational Philosophy
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Laff, Ned Scott – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005
This chapter argues that liberal learning can be transformative and foster students' intellectual and ethical development only if we consider its development underpinnings and pedagogic strategies that illustrate that the skills of academic inquiry are the skills of personal development. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Student Development, Cognitive Development, Ethics