BOOK REVIEW: "Postformal Education" by Gabrielle Donnelly in 'Journal of Transformative Education'
Jennifer Gidley PhD
Psychologist * Climate Educator * Futures Researcher * President, World Futures Studies Federation (2009-2017). Adjunct Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS. World's Top 50 Women Futurists (Forbes)
Postformal Education: A Philosophy for Complex Futures by Jennifer M. Gidley (Springer, 2016)
BOOK REVIEW by Gabrielle Donnelly, Acadia University, Nova Scotia in “Journal of Transformative Education” 15(4): 377-379.
“Postformal Education skillfully navigates the urgency and challenges embedded in these times, as well as the tremendous possibilities present within education, offering a vision for a new educational philosophy to awaken creativity, care, and agency.
The book provides a robust and substantive dialogue among leading thinkers and theories on cultural evolution, integral theories, developmental psychology, postformal reasoning qualities, postformal pedagogies, and educational futures, drawing upon Ken Wilber, Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, Joe Kincheloe, Robert Kegan, Edgar Morin, and many others…
The book will appeal to educational philosophers and researchers, educators and teachers, developmental and educational psychologists, educational administrators, and anyone else with interest in transformative educational theories designed for the 21st century.
[Gidley] joins the chorus of voices calling for a planet-wide call to action to transform education and makes a distinct, inspiring, and significant contribution.”
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