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Whispers of Change

Whispers of Change FAR OUT As your conference program drowned out by the winds through assumptions and ways of think- in times of chaotic change, that we so eloquently points out,we are the tree tops. The sound of chil- ing andabing, Old approaches to all need a foundation to support experiencing winds of change that dren’s laughter among the cries of education have been based on a us. This foundation is at core our are sweeping acm this land and violence in our cities. The gentle linear, top down approach with ties beliefs and values. around the world. These winds tear sound of a field of wheat caressed to the assumptions of the industrial I hear a whper to auzptpara- at organizations, challenge adult by a summer breeze. age: an assembly-line conception of dox andambiguity a- realily education programs, and force us We have become so engulfed by teaching and learning, the creation rather than maptwn. Too often to rethink who we are, what we do, the winds of change that we have of measurable products, and ideas we discount the paradoxical and and how we do it. to listen to the whis- forgotten how about inputs and outputs. the ambiguous because http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

Whispers of Change

Adult Learning , Volume 5 (4): 2 – Mar 1, 1994

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1994 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
ISSN
1045-1595
eISSN
2162-4070
DOI
10.1177/104515959400500405
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Abstract

FAR OUT As your conference program drowned out by the winds through assumptions and ways of think- in times of chaotic change, that we so eloquently points out,we are the tree tops. The sound of chil- ing andabing, Old approaches to all need a foundation to support experiencing winds of change that dren’s laughter among the cries of education have been based on a us. This foundation is at core our are sweeping acm this land and violence in our cities. The gentle linear, top down approach with ties beliefs and values. around the world. These winds tear sound of a field of wheat caressed to the assumptions of the industrial I hear a whper to auzptpara- at organizations, challenge adult by a summer breeze. age: an assembly-line conception of dox andambiguity a- realily education programs, and force us We have become so engulfed by teaching and learning, the creation rather than maptwn. Too often to rethink who we are, what we do, the winds of change that we have of measurable products, and ideas we discount the paradoxical and and how we do it. to listen to the whis- forgotten how about inputs and outputs. the ambiguous because

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Published: Mar 1, 1994

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