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Автор: Elena Aguilar
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
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isbn: 9781119843368
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of practice. A transactional process in which learners are passive subjects who are asked simply to change their behaviors. A structure for learning. The purpose of PD is to help people change their practice through exploring their beliefs and ways of being.Required for everyone because we all need to learn and grow.A dynamic, holistic experience. Humans learn with and through our minds, hearts, and bodies.A process to cultivate self‐awareness and understanding, social awareness and understanding, community development, and individual and collective empowerment.A vehicle for social transformation. A thinly veiled form of control. The goal of PD is not compliance.An opportunity for massive amounts of information to be forced on someone.A punishment for not performing well in a position.An isolated experience, a one‐time event.A vehicle to maintain the status quo.

      When Elena pulled back the curtain for participants at the end of her three‐day workshop, she revealed that much of the magic was in creating effective and inspiring “conditions for learning.” In effect, this whole book is about creating the conditions for learning—for transformative learning. But what are “the conditions” in which learning happens?

      Learning happens when:

       Learners understand the purpose for the learning they're involved in, and the purpose is clear, relevant, and meaningful. It's easy to see the benefits that will come from the learning.

       The social, emotional, cognitive, and physical needs of learners are met. This includes feeling that you can share your thoughts, that the teacher or facilitator has your best interests at heart, that you are being appropriately challenged, and that other learners will support and encourage you as you learn.

       The design for the learning experience is carefully, thoughtfully constructed and based on learner needs.

       Every last detail of the learning experience is anticipated and planned.

       Facilitators skillfully execute the learning plan and adapt, responding to learners when necessary.

       Facilitators are reflective, see themselves as learners, have a high degree of emotional intelligence and self‐awareness, and can motivate people and inspire them to take risks and to stretch outside of their comfort zones.

      The Seven Habits

      Habits are behaviors that you enact so often that you internalize them and they become routine. For example, you probably brush your teeth every day without having to think about how to angle the toothbrush—you just do it. Once a behavior is a habit, it doesn't take as much cognitive, physical, or emotional energy as when you started.

Schematic illustration shows how to create transformative PD: PARTY.
Habit & Chapter Condition for Learning Description
Determine Purpose (1) Purpose Transformative PD emerges from purpose. We identify and create purpose, and then we communicate it to learners and build their buy‐in.
Engage Emotions (2) Audience Human beings have emotions, and we engage our own emotions and those of others to create the conditions for learning. We respond to challenging emotions and create psychological safety for individuals and groups.
Navigate Power (3) Audience Power is always present, and when we're in hierarchical organizations, we must learn how to use it. We make choices about what kind of power we work from, how we use it, and how we respond to power struggles.
Anchor in Adult Learning Principles (4) We act on the research about what adults need in order to learn. We can provide choice, honor agency, access prior learning, and make the learning relevant.
Design Intentionally (5) Routines We honor the backgrounds of participants, consider the why behind design, and are deliberate in determining outcomes, selecting activities, developing learning structures, and sequencing learning.
Attend to Details (6) Attending to details makes learners feel welcome, affirmed, valued, and psychologically safe.
Facilitate Adaptively (7) Technique Developing self‐awareness, emotional intelligence, cultural humility, and clear communication enables you to respond appropriately to whatever happens in a PD session.

      You

      You might notice that Purpose, Audience, Routines, and Technique each get their own chapter, but none of the habits explicitly addresses you, or the Y in the acronym PARTY. That's because who you are—your behaviors, beliefs, and ways of being—are addressed in every habit. Think of the Y as reminding us of you, of the importance of your presence and of what you bring to every aspect of transformative PD.

      A Learning Organization: A Contextual Condition for PD