A paradigm, a fear management system, an integral-level second-tier consciousness structure that no longer is motivated by fear as primary; is a historical movement to contradict and “managed” excess fear accumulation in living systems and is a behavioral attitude and set of virtues and practices that are aligned with courageous but transcend it because there is a deep desire to know everything (integrally) about the nature and role of fear as a troubling, complex and contextual cultural and sociopolitical phenomenon.
Published in Chapter:
Post-Adult Education Alternatives in 45 Years of Learning/Teaching: An Integral-Informed Autoethnographic Reflection
R. Michael Fisher (University of Calgary, Canada)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5873-6.ch015
Abstract
The author critically examines the directional trends that education has gone through in the last 45 years of his teaching and learning experiences, primarily in Alberta, Canada (1972-2017). He argues that, formerly, Alberta was at the leading edge of positive progressive change, before neoliberal ideology invaded Education. Through use of autoethnographic reflection and sociocultural and political contextualization of his educational experiences, the author elaborates the necessity of adopting a holistic-integral alternative path to research and teaching outside of institutionalized mainstream education systems. His emphasis on the affective domain, for example the importance of fear in education, is accompanied by his applications of developmental notions of “post-adult,” transdisciplinary, and integral theoretical work. The purpose of the chapter is to demonstrate, through his own life, a model of potential guidance for teachers, who are questioning how best to negotiate their own careers within the challenges of 21st century neoliberalism and cascading global crises.