Jeffs Book Blog: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners
The book involves various stories with real life scenarios that include a very in-depth message regarding the learning process. Daloz refers to the learner as a "traveler" which I really like as we do travel through life and the learning process. I am a huge advocate of behavioristic learning and Daloz discusses how some learning has changed our lives forever. In part two of the book he describes the learning process as a transformative journey, life altering changes. Travelers react in a variety of ways to this discovery. For some the new challenges is a "welcome freshness," for others this process can be a stiff challenge and will be achieved only after considerable turmoil, and for others the pressures prove to be too great and they retrieve to their comfort zones without venturing forward into the unknown. Wow, so many interesting concepts that involve real life meaning making transformations.