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Jerome Bruner, meaning-making and education for conflict resolution : why how we think matters /

Myers offers an educational intervention that invites development of representations in response to difference. Presenting a new framework for examining controversy between worldviews and a method for creating space for difference, the book brings this into dialogue with education and research, conf...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Myers, Sally (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Emerald points.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • JEROME BRUNER, MEANING MAKING AND EDUCATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
  • JEROME BRUNER, MEANING MAKING AND EDUCATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Why How We Think Matters
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • SIMPLE SUMMARY
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Jerome Bruner: An Overview of Key Ideas
  • 2. Constructing Knowing: Paradigmatic and Narrative Modes of Representation and the Social Context of Meaning-Making
  • Paradigmatic Mode of Knowing
  • The Narrative Construction of Reality
  • The Social Context of Meaning-Making
  • Individual versus Social Antinomies
  • 3. Minding Challenge: Stances towards New Information and Openness to Change
  • Stance towards Challenge in the Paradigmatic Mode of Knowing
  • Knowing with the Left Hand
  • Stance towards Challenge in the Narrative Mode of Knowing
  • Connections between Stance in the Two Modes
  • 4. Changing Minds: Narrative Mechanisms of Adaptation
  • Canonicity and Breach
  • Social Context of Narrative Change
  • Changing Stories: Engaging the Process
  • 5. A Brunerian Toolkit
  • 6. Dialogues
  • Education and Research: Conditioning to Creativity
  • Conflict Resolution: Resistance to Recognition
  • Religious Belief: Fundamentalism to Maturity in Faith
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX