Transformative Learning for a New Worldview

M. G. JACKSON is a former Professor of Agriculture and sometime Director of Research at the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. On his early retirement in 1982 he worked as an Environmental Educator with the Uttarakhand Environmental Education Centre designing and testing the Centre's school environmental education course. He has a related interest in sustainable agriculture and has published a collection of essays under the title The Ecological Village.

• Preface PART 1: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL CULTURE Introduction Contradictions, Incoherence and Confusion Learning to Think Differently Atoms, People and Other Things The Laws of Nature A Flawed System of Ideas Alternative Assumptions A Return to the Perennial Questions Toward a New Cultural Model PART 2: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN POST-COLONIAL SOCIETIES Transform, Reform, Reaffirm PART 3: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN PRACTICE Secure their Foundations Appendices Bibliography Index