Full Description
Ron Burnett offers a timely and provocative vision for educational transformation. Drawing on his decades-long career as both an educator and institutional leader, Burnett crafts a compelling narrative that bridges personal experience with forward-thinking educational theory and practice.
This book suggests that transformative learning demands time - far more than our rapid-fire systems allow us. It challenges our obsession with quick inputs and outputs, exposing the deeper, slower rhythms of authentic intellectual growth, and forges powerful connections between physical learning spaces, creative environments, and the frontiers of experimentation where teaching and learning boundaries are dramatically expanded.
A Biography of Learning emerges at a critical juncture, where technological revolution meets institutional evolution. Burnett's approach is refreshingly pragmatic yet boldly visionary, providing roadmaps for tomorrow. For anyone invested in the future of learning - educators, administrators, policymakers, students, and engaged citizens - Burnett's insights provide inspiration for navigating the intersection of tradition and innovation in educational practices.
Contents
Prelude: Artificial Intelligence and Time
Introduction: A New School - A New Learning Paradigm?
Part One
1. Biography, Learning, and Play
2. Knowledge, Memory, and Living Archives
3. The Classroom, Generational Change, and the Expansion of Disciplines
4. Film Studies, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Window Water Baby Moving
Part Two
5. Learning with and against TikTok and AI: The Algorithmic Challenge
6. Science, Truth, History, and Learning
7. Learning with New Tools
8. Transposition, Translation, Transformation, Serendipity
9. Chance, Bricolage, Symmetry
10. The Radical Impossibility of Teaching
Part Three
11. Learning, Consensus, and Social Media
12. Symptom Fields
Part Four
13. Budding Visions and New Spaces for Learning
14. The Communication of Ideas through Video
15. Making, Being, Learning
16. Designing a New Campus for Emily Carr University of Art and Design
17. Studios, Outcomes, and Vision
Conclusion
Endnotes