Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way

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Description: This gracefully written meditation on how we learn by anthropologist Bateson ( Composing a Life ) stresses that most learning occurs outside of schools. Her view of learning as an improvisational, lifelong, participatory activity that changes the learner is enriched by personal examples drawn from her years spent abroad--as a teenager in Israel (1956-58) and on a return trip there in 1988-89, as a fieldworker and young professor in the Philippines (1966-68) and as a teacher and new mother in Iran (1972-79) with her husband Barkev, an Armenian Christian who grew up in Syria. Shuttling among cultures, Bateson brings fresh perspect ... (more)

Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Release date: 24 May 1995
ISBN-10 : 0060926309 | ISBN-13: 9780060926304

Tags: Biography (1), Education (1), Think (1), Spirit (1), SnP (1), Attention (1), Lives (1), Openness (1), Cross-Cultural (1)

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