期刊名称：Learning and teaching in higher education (LATHE)
印刷版ISSN：1742-240X
出版年度：2011
期号：5
页码：7-16
出版社：University of Gloucestershire
摘要：This editorial uses the framework of spiral dynamics, from business and leadership education, to explore the different worldviews represented within this special issue on transformative learning. It highlights the misalignment of the consciousness of current top-down, authoritarian, management hierarchies in higher education with that of the innovative learning production amongst the teachers and learners at these structures’ creative lower margins. It identifies that much education for global citizenship and sustainability addresses the highest communitarian subsistence level of the spiral, a relativistic, socially responsible and spiritually aware ‘Green vMEME’ consciousness that is gradually displacing bureaucratic and individual achievist modes. However, it also discusses a leading edge that is pioneering the higher ‘being’ levels of the spiral, including the more individualistic pragmatic consciousness of the selfdevelopment oriented ‘Yellow ‘Flexflow’ vMEME’, while recognising that the leading edge of the discourse on education for global citizenship and a sustainable future already goes beyond this to the deep ecological and global perspectives of the spiral’s highest extant level. This is the ‘Turquoise vMEME’, which is characterised by holistic, intuitive thinking and an appreciation of existence as a single interacting organic whole. It poses the question: should education seek to be transformative and, if so, to transform to what? Finally, it recognises the operational problem that each successive level of consciousness seems risibly incomprehensible to those fixed in the one below.
