Now i know the transcripts better, it occured to me, the difference between the fellows' purposes is not so much where they are in their career but where they are in a learning process. It is important to say that this learning path will be different for everyone and will have different destinations, but roughly it boils down to three types of learning (now is this Kitchener? If any passer by can help me with a reference i would be grateful)
- individual. The fellow is interested in improving her skills and career prospects, networking, becoming more visible and being more productive (individual learning in group setting)
- social. The fellow is interested in collaborating with others on project proposals, sharing the AWARD Skills and message forward to others, sensitizing men, helping girls in schools, but WITHIN the existing paradigm (group learning in group setting)
- societal. The fellow is interested in changing the context, the environment within which she is working. She wants to set agendas and influence policy with an eye firmly on alleviating poverty and changing the role of African women in agriculture. Game-changing change.
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Arwen
What you describe feels closer to to Hyatt and Kaplan (2006) three critical features of learning:
Consious self - where one listens and engages
Centered Self - 'integrity' - values are clear
Emergent self - aware of your own power and influence
For learning to take place need to ensure conscious self and centred self are open to emergent self.
from a current 870 student
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p.s Kitchener writes about
cognition -knowing
meta-cognition – knowing about knowing
epistemic cognition – knowing about the nature of knowledge
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Thank you, Bridget. That reference rings a bell. Think i may have that somewhere. Time for a quick rummage.