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Download full textWillis, Peter – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
In this paper I use a story to introduce the idea of stories in adult educational practice. Telling stories seems to be as old as human culture. MacIntyre referred to humans as "story-telling animals" (1981: 201). The secret is the ways in which this storytelling capacity can be used in a holistic humanistic pedagogy. Education, the process of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Practices, Story Telling, Classroom Communication
Willis, Peter – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2007
This paper explores ways in which pedagogy for an elaborated form of transformative learning can be a useful catalyst for the development of social capital in community and workplace groups and networks. I begin with an example and then explore ideas of learning challenges embedded in building and maintaining social capital. I consider the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Capital, Teaching Methods, Profiles
