Adult Learning and Discourse

Next week we’ll start the class differently by designing and interpreting 30-second vignettes based on the 5 lenses (orientations) from the Merriam,Caffarella & Baumgartner readings and also the lenses presented in Women’s Ways of Knowing. Let’s see if this constructivist approach will create more energy than my old powerpoints (such pre-blog technology…gross).

Speaking of epistemologies and lenses…

While multiple lenses are good, we all have our favorites, I suspect. Humanism is the lens I most identify with.  Does that mean it’s the one I most practice?  According to Donald Schon, there’s often a gap between espoused beliefs and theory-in-action. Last night’s lecture was not very non-directive (at least the first half of class).  Carl Rogers is tisk-tisking down at me from Humanist heaven. Ouch!