I find Etienne inspiring to listen to. There are many things I could have picked to quote from his keynote today - but this is one that struck me as relevant to the process of reflective learning:
He said:
'Any serious learning will take you through a dark night of your identity'.
I can absolutely relate to this and how this relates to the transformative aspect of deep learning and knowledge being troublesome. According to Etienne, we need to be able to cross a boundary and know how to engage enough on the other side of a boundary.
If anyone 'out there' is reading this - does this stir you as much as it stirs me? I think I will post this to my other blog as well.
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1 comment:
Jenny, love it!
Etienne has managed to 'talk simply about complex things', as he does! (The inseparabilty of epistemology and ontology, wrapped up in a dark night. Remarkable).
There is a rather stark example of this in the case in the affordances for learning research, of someone who 'learns to become a manager' through the process of firing her best friend. Learning, like love, can be painful.
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