Managing Your Own Learning - Softcover

Davis, James R.; Davis, Adelaide B.

 
9781576750674: Managing Your Own Learning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1576750671 ISBN 13: 9781576750674
Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000

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This guide for independent learning and workplace training presents seven powerful strategies for staying ahead in today’s knowledge-based economy.
 
These days, perpetual learning is an essential professional skill and a vital part of any business. It’s important to have effective learning strategies that work for you and your team. This practical guide offers a comprehensive approach to creating a focused philosophy of learning, choosing the best approach to planning programs and activities, and developing appropriate systems for assessing results.
 
The authors cover seven powerful training strategies: Behavioral, Cognitive, Inquiry, Mental Models, Group Dynamics, Virtual Reality, and Holistic. They provide a detailed description of each, including the learning theory behind it, its strengths and weaknesses, practical examples of the strategy in action, and side-by-side comparisons showing its appropriate uses.

Based on well-researched theories of learning, this book is rich in examples from more than sixty-five worldwide business leaders—including Eastman Kodak, Motorola, SHARP, United Airlines, Norsk Hydro, ABB Atom, Boeing, TELEBRAS, and the U.S. Air Force.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JAMES R. DAVIS is a Professor of higher education and adult studies at the University of Denver. He holds degrees from Oberlin College and Yale University and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in higher education administration. Jim teaches courses on characteristics of adult learners, training, teaching adults, program planning and administration, leadership, and the uses of technology in instruction. He has served in numerous administrative posts, including assistant to the provost, director of the center for academic quality, director of the school of education—all at the University of Denver—and as academic dean at the historically black college, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio.
ADELAIDE B.DAVIS served as a training analyst to COPASA MG, a government-sponsored public water and sanitation company in Brazil. She taught human resources management at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, where she also earned her masters degree in administration with a specialization in human resource management. She planned and facilitated numerous training workshops for her company and spoke at several conferences and annual meetings in Brazil.

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The Age of Perpetual Learning

FOR MANY OF US, living as we do in this fast-paced high-tech era, life is like trying to change a tire on a car while the car is still moving. It is a bizarre image, like something from a recurring dream—you can’t possibly do what is expected, but you know your life depends on it. This is no dream. This is twenty-first-century reality. The only constant is change. Our only hope is perpetual learning.

Everyone today is either trying to get ahead, catch up, or keep from falling behind. Many people are trying to learn something just to survive—but learning is not fundamentally about survival, even though it often helps us to get through tough situations. Learning is the key to flourishing and prospering in this new era. Learning awakens our sensibilities, enables us to actualize our aspirations, and takes us places we never dreamed of going.

This book is for people who would like to improve the way they manage their learning. The key to doing that is learning more about learning so that you can get the most out of any learning you undertake. The goal is to become proficient at the process of learning itself.

Managing Your Own Learning is a book for a broad audience of learners:

• Workforce learners who have opportunities to participate in training and development programs in business, government, or not-for-profit organizations

• Formal learners enrolled in graduate or professional degree programs in colleges and universities or in continuing education programs

• Part-time learners in certificate or occupational programs in community colleges, proprietary trade schools, or the armed services

• Independent learners who are moving ahead on their own to learn what they want or need to know

• Emerging learners who may not even think of themselves as learners at this moment, but who have tremendous potential for learning

• Awakening learners who thought they had learned all they needed to know until they got that middle-of-the-night wakeup call

• Recovering learners who are trying to get beyond their previous bad experiences with learning so they can prosper in the new era

A NEW ERA
Not Just a New Millennium

The year 2000! We knew Y2K was coming. We read about it, heard about it, and got sick of hearing about it. Then it came. Is anything different? A lot of things are different, but they started being different long before the year 2000.

The cultural artifacts of a new era are now familiar and everywhere present: computers, lasers, robots, scanners, jet planes, bullet trains, color xerography, digital cameras, the Net, the Web. We are surrounded by high-order-of-magnitude change. Technological innovation drives much of the change, but we also experience other kinds of change: new organizational structures and management techniques, new means of production and service delivery, and a new global economy and communications network.

Call it what you will—the Information Age, the learning society, the cybernated world—this new era puts us all in a new situation with regard to our learning. It is the new era that is significant, not the new century or the new millennium. Time is arbitrary; events are real. The year 2000 on the Muslim calendar was 1420 A.H. On the traditional Chinese calendar it was 4690. What is different? Not the date, but the times and what the times demand of us—continuous learning.

The world we grew up in no longer exists. Everything is changing. Rapid change is a fact of life for people all over the world, in developed as well as developing nations. The entire globe has plunged into a new era of accelerated change with enormous consequences for learning. Older people in the workforce certainly feel this, but so do recent graduates. Whatever level of education they have just completed, they soon see that they were not exposed to learning they really need and learned many things that are already obsolete. Today, learning has a short shelf life.

Most of us today are under great pressure to learn new things. That pressure comes partly from the organizations where we work, but the broader source is the society in which we live. Furthermore, the new era demands of us real learning—not just going through the motions, seat time in a workshop, a diploma in hand or a certificate that says we were there. Credentials are still important, but what really counts is the learning behind and beyond the credentials. The bottom line is performance, and high-quality performance depends on perpetual learning.

PREDICTIONS THAT CAME TRUE
Looking Back on the Futurists

When was this new era born? Scholars began thinking about the new era long before it arrived. They read the signs of the times and began to predict a radically new future. Some people laughed at these predictions and made fun of the predictors, who came to be called futurists. In general, the predictions of the futurists have come true; if they were wrong, perhaps it was in underestimating both the rate and the scope of the changes.

According to an article in Fortune Magazine,1 the world passed from the Industrial Age to the Information Age in 1991, the year that corporate spending on information technology surpassed corporate investment in manufacturing technologies (Stewart and Furth, 1994).2 One of the leading futurists, Alvin Toffler, gives the new era a much earlier date: 1955, the beginning of a decade “that saw white-collar service workers outnumber blue-collar workers for the first time” (1980, 20).3 Toffler was able to see that this new era was going to be upsetting. In an earlier work he called it future shock, “a time phenomenon, a product of the greatly accelerated rate of change in society” (1970, 13).4 He compared it to the culture shock one experiences in traveling to another country, but with one important difference: you can’t return home. It is not just change that causes future shock but the rate of change, what Toffler calls “the accelerative thrust” of change (1970, 20–34).5

The future described by the futurists (Toffler, 1972)6 is not coming; it has arrived with full force. It doesn’t matter when it began or what we call it; what we know for certain is that the new era is here. However much we may want to turn the clock back to another era, or slow the rate of change, we can’t. Besides, there are many things most people like about the new era. We have no choice but to adapt. This is the Age of Perpetual Learning.

The chief characteristic of the Age of Perpetual Learning is rapid change. The real meaning of the year 2000 is that no one can survive without learning. Learning is driven both by necessity and passion. The key is to learn how to manage your own learning so that you can not only survive but thrive.

LEARNING ABOUT LEARNING
Using This Book

Although researchers know a great amount about learning processes after a fruitful century of investigation, most people remain relatively in the dark about how learning takes place. This is not the result of a conspiracy on the part of those who have provided our formal schooling; it is, rather, a matter of neglect. Few teachers or trainers believe their role includes sitting down with us to discuss the learning processes we are experiencing—even if they themselves had words to describe these processes, which they may not. Ironically, even after years of formal learning few people have a clear idea of what learning is or the many ways learning takes place.

Learning about learning is the organizing theme of this book. If you are able to learn the basics about learning, you should be able to maximize your learning in almost any setting. The structure of...

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Verlag
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
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Englisch
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1576750671
ISBN 13 
9781576750674
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240
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