infed.org -- a resource for informal education
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infed.org offers a place to explore the theory and practice of informal education and social action learning. Perhaps we can make use of its resources to develop ways of working and being that foster our association, conversation and relationship.
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Latest Activity: Aug 30
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau on nature, wholeness and education 8 Replies
InfEd feature article on Jean-Jacques Rousseau considers how "drawing from a broad spectrum of traditions including botany, music and philosophy, his thinking has influenced subsequent generations ...
Tagged: political_theory, romanticism, novel, education, wholeness
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Aug 30.
reflecting on (reflecting on (reflecting on...)) reciprocating with engaging in (engaging in (engaging in...))
Although this InfEd article on reflection was last updated nine years ago, it remains useful in its concise assessment of the ideas of some of the key contributors who have studied the matter: Dewe...
Tagged: efficacy, engagement, experience, reflection, learning
Started by Skip Zilla Aug. 3, 2008.
Revealing comparison of the assumptions of pedagogy and andragogy 4 Replies
While exploring curiously InfEd's wider introduction to neuro-linguistic programming, learning and education, I stumbled onto its link to a narrower discussion on andragogy and, reading it, found a...
Tagged: rethinking, reinterpretation, age, learners, assumptions
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Jul. 27, 2008.
InfEd.org's introduction to Parker J. Palmer
This is how InfEd.org introduces Parker J. Palmer as one of its featured thinkers: "Parker J. Palmer's explorations of education as a spiritual journey and of the inner lives of educators have bee...
Tagged: infed.org, thinker, parker+j+palmer
Started by Skip Zilla Feb. 26, 2008.
bell hooks and educating the whole person 5 Replies
"bell hooks concern with the interlacing dynamics of 'race', gender, culture and class and her overall orientation to the whole person and to their well-being when connected with her ability to eng...
Tagged: hooks, practice, personal, whole+person, liberty
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Feb. 4, 2008.
Participatory Education for Democracy 6 Replies
Editor Mark K. Smith introduces InfEd's discussion of "participatory education" in his 2001 article titled Education for Democracy. Smith focuses on the work of two great 20th-century educators, Jo...
Tagged: democratic, politics, classrooms, participatory, schools
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Connie Weber Feb. 2, 2008.
Infed's brief, but resourceful, introduction to "holistic education" 2 Replies
This link, a brief introduction to holistic education, opens up a resourceful page of information at infed.org written by Ron Miller, whom Infed claims is "among the best known and best informed in...
Tagged: holistic, education, infed, philosophy, introduction
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Jan. 15, 2008.
a preview of thinkers featured at infed.org 9 Replies
A section of the Infed.org Website presents a directory list of thinkers who are "central to the development of the theory and practice of lifelong learning, social action and informal education." ...
Tagged: thinkers, practice, infed.org, theory, informal+learning
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Jan. 11, 2008.
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Comment by Ian Carmichael on September 10, 2008 at 4:29am
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Just a comment to reaffirm the importance of infed.org - my research trail took me here for Howard Gardner - a very succinct review, with a clear-eyed view of the benefits and dubiousnesses of MI.
Quality work - and then I got reading on Ruskin (which reminds me of Collingwood and my tour through the Lakes district...)
If you hacven't dipped into infed - pretty classy for something informal! - be rewarded and do it!
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