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Pattern Making, Pattern Breaking by Ann Alder
Opis
Rapid changes in technology, the nature of organisations, non-traditional career progression, globalisation and ‘virtual worlds’ mean that we need to become ever more effective learners in order to keep pace with the demands placed upon us. Our patterns of understanding, the ways in which we make sense of our work and our world, hardly become fixed before we are asked to change them and form new ones.
The ability to build patterns is fundamental to our ability to learn. Ann Alder’s Pattern Making, Pattern Breaking explores the ways in which educators and facilitators can work to help students build those patterns that will be most useful to them. These may be ‘technical’ patterns of language, number, sequence or process; they may be thinking patterns that support problem-solving, creativity, logical analysis or empathy or they may be patterns of behaviour that demonstrate trust, influence or integrity in relationships. Alder also illustrates how you can teach students to break patterns: to help them move on in the learning process by recognising and rejecting long–held patterns of behaviour or assumptions that are unhelpful or redundant.
Formal education and training do not necessarily produce learners who are well-resourced to take advantage of opportunities that arise and to avoid some of the stresses that uncertainty, ambiguity or imposed change place upon them. So, perhaps one of the most important patterns that we can explore and understand as we move forward, in a changing world, is our own pattern of learning. Whether you are a parent, teacher, tutor, trainer, coach or manager, you need to be an effective facilitator of learning and this book is the perfect starting place.
The purpose of this book is to explore with you the ways in which the design, delivery and reviewing of training and learning activities can become a fundamental part of the adult learning process. This uses learning principles that allow observation and reflection upon new and existing patterns, an opportunity to re-work or re-form existing mental models and the time and space to understand, rehearse and apply the new learning.
Description:
Part 1: Pattern Facilitation: Why are patterns so important in the facilitation of learning?; Designing learning that sticks; The role of the learning facilitator.
Part 2: Learning Skills: Pattern recognition; Pattern evaluation; The use of questions; Challenge, confrontation and creativity.
Part 3: Training Skills: Using metaphor and visual imagery; Simulation: an opportunity to rehearse new patterns; Reinforcing and applying new patterns using action plans; Pattern making in organisational contexts; Measuring lasting and successful behaviour change; Conclusion: developing effective learning strategies ; Index.
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Szczegóły
Autor | ANN ALDER |
ISBN | 978-0-566-08853-7 |
Liczba stron | 240 |