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Category Archives: Relational learning
Truth from Trash – How Learning Makes Sense
This study of learning in autonomous agents offers a bracing intellectual adventure. Chris Thornton makes the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner. Although theorists … Continue reading
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Learning as Relational: Intersubjectivity and Pedagogy in Higher Education
The decision to make the student population financially responsible for their own university education has major implications for the future of higher education provision. Chief among these implications will undoubtedly be a much stronger emphasis on the student experience, not … Continue reading
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Respect as an Engine for New Ideas: Respectful Engagement, Relational Learning and Creativity
In this article, we suggest that relationships more directly influence the creative process by enhancing individuals’ capacities and motivating them to engage with others. In particular, if individuals interrelate in ways that foster respect, relationships serve as means for endogenously … Continue reading
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More than Cool Reason: “Withness-thinking” or “Systemic thinking” and Thinking about Systems
Many of our difficulties in our practical lives are not of the form of “problems” that we can solve by reasoning; nor are they are “empirical problems” that we can solve by discovering something currently unknown to us by the … Continue reading
No Education without Relation
This book is a collective statement about a new approach to education – the pedagogy of relation. After revisiting a number of existing conversations, the authors bring together several theoretical traditions under the umbrella of the pedagogy of relation. This … Continue reading