Emergent Learning for Wisdom

The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in different ways. Meeting these challenges requires creation of knowledge and development of wisdom. This book draws together forty years of scholarship, practice and original research, to catalyze our expertise in learning about what we don't know. "The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in fundamentally different ways. Meeting these challenges requires not only the creation of knowledge but the development of wisdom. This book draws together forty years of scholarship and practice, along with original research, to catalyze our expertise in learning about what we don't know. As evident from the perspective of the learner, a pattern of four distinctive phases of experience - a specific sequence of cognitive, affective, and relationship features - can generate an enhanced perspective out of confusion and lead to wisdom in action"-- Provided by publisher "The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in fundamentally different ways. Meeting these challenges requires not only the creation of knowledge but the development of wisdom. This book draws together forty years of scholarship and practice, along with original research, to catalyze our expertise in learning about what we don't know. As evident from the perspective of the learner, a pattern of four distinctive phases of experience - a specific sequence of cognitive, affective, and relationship features - can generate an enhanced perspective out of confusion and lead to wisdom in action"-- NL-ZmNBD Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-7 A Twenty-First-Century Learning Agenda: Challenges and Possibilities....Pages 9-29 Learning in the Twenty-First Century: Embedded, Emergent, and Embodied....Pages 31-53 Emergent Learning from an Inside-Out Perspective....Pages 55-86 Converging Perspectives on Emergent Learning....Pages 87-119 Leading Ourselves: Cultivating Personal Practices for Emergent Learning....Pages 121-175 Global Imperatives, Emergent Learning, and Leadership....Pages 177-202 Back Matter....Pages 203-253