Weakness, Belonging, and the Intercordia Experience: The Logic and Limits of Dissonance as a Transformative Learning Tool.

Educational theorist Richard Kiely highlights the central importance of “high intensity dissonance” in successful international service-learning. This essay applies Kiely's model of dissonance and transformative learning to Intercordia, an international service-learning program offered at the Univer...

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Publicado en:Teaching Theology & Religion Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 3 - 15
Autor principal: Locklin, Reid B.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2010
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