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License to Learn
Elevating Discomfort in Service of Lifelong Learning
by Anna Switzer, PhD
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Pub Date
1 Jan 2021
| Archive Date
23 Feb 2021
Description
Life is an adventurous and winding road, and License to Learn delivers a flexible and intriguing map so that you can navigate your own unique journey. With this map, you are invited to see life's experiences—some chosen, some not—differently, and to make meaning from them in new ways. The key is that the so-called "comfort zone" is truly not the place to be when you want to learn, grow, or develop—except as a place to rest and reflect before heading "out" again.
License to Learn aims to improve your ability to learn from your own life experience, and the genre-breaking format will lure you in with true tales of all kinds to use as examples. With this map as your guide, you can change your relationship to discomfort. And you can become your own best teacher.
Life is an adventurous and winding road, and License to Learn delivers a flexible and intriguing map so that you can navigate your own unique journey. With this map, you are invited to see life's...
Description
Life is an adventurous and winding road, and License to Learn delivers a flexible and intriguing map so that you can navigate your own unique journey. With this map, you are invited to see life's experiences—some chosen, some not—differently, and to make meaning from them in new ways. The key is that the so-called "comfort zone" is truly not the place to be when you want to learn, grow, or develop—except as a place to rest and reflect before heading "out" again.
License to Learn aims to improve your ability to learn from your own life experience, and the genre-breaking format will lure you in with true tales of all kinds to use as examples. With this map as your guide, you can change your relationship to discomfort. And you can become your own best teacher.
A Note From the Publisher
Anna has been teaching for over 30 years and holds a PhD in Education. She has extensive experience as an Outward Bound Instructor, an Expeditionary Learning "School Designer," and has also worked with National Geographic Education Programs. In these roles, Anna has taught in classrooms, led wilderness adventures, and worked with in-service and pre-service teachers. Anna is also certified as a Nature-Connected Life Coach.
Anna has been teaching for over 30 years and holds a PhD in Education. She has extensive experience as an Outward Bound Instructor, an Expeditionary Learning "School Designer," and has also worked...
A Note From the Publisher
Anna has been teaching for over 30 years and holds a PhD in Education. She has extensive experience as an Outward Bound Instructor, an Expeditionary Learning "School Designer," and has also worked with National Geographic Education Programs. In these roles, Anna has taught in classrooms, led wilderness adventures, and worked with in-service and pre-service teachers. Anna is also certified as a Nature-Connected Life Coach.
Advance Praise
The zone model was simple yet profoundly engaging. It provided a helpful lens through which to view the transformations of my own life’s journey. Helped me realize that a recent couple of months of profound depression was an entirely appropriate response to wandering too far out of the discomfort zone into the panic zone. I can see that my natural response of withdrawal back to certain comforts and known routines was subconsciously exactly what I needed. The model helps me see my alternation of discomfort-seeking and comfort-seeking is not pathological but natural.
-William Martin, author of The Parent's Tao Te Ching and A Path and a Practice
The zone model was simple yet profoundly engaging. It provided a helpful lens through which to view the transformations of my own life’s journey. Helped me realize that a recent couple of months of...
Advance Praise
The zone model was simple yet profoundly engaging. It provided a helpful lens through which to view the transformations of my own life’s journey. Helped me realize that a recent couple of months of profound depression was an entirely appropriate response to wandering too far out of the discomfort zone into the panic zone. I can see that my natural response of withdrawal back to certain comforts and known routines was subconsciously exactly what I needed. The model helps me see my alternation of discomfort-seeking and comfort-seeking is not pathological but natural.
-William Martin, author of The Parent's Tao Te Ching and A Path and a Practice
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781636495279 |
| PRICE |
US$22.99 (USD)
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781636495279 |
| PRICE |
US$22.99 (USD)
|
Average rating from 3 members
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Excellent! All the information was,well explained and delivered in easy to understand chapters. Great book highly recommended!
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Dr. Anna Switzer writes wisely and well. This is a reading experience to contemplate and an insightful text.
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This book is excellent at putting things into perspective and becoming a wiser human -- about ourselves and the world.
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Featured Reviews
Hal P, Bookseller
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Excellent! All the information was,well explained and delivered in easy to understand chapters. Great book highly recommended!
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Words, Images, & Worlds (, Reviewer
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Dr. Anna Switzer writes wisely and well. This is a reading experience to contemplate and an insightful text.
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Educator 317339
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This book is excellent at putting things into perspective and becoming a wiser human -- about ourselves and the world.
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