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Book SynopsisSchooling, the most ubiquitous species of formal educational practice, removes learners from the world in which they exist and places them in contrived environments in order to educate them for the world in which they will work, play, and engage in other forms of cultural production for the rest of their time on Earth. While this arrangement seems to work for some, particularly those in academia and policymaking (who make decisions about educating others), it serves many of us somewhat less satisfactorily. This book documents the ongoing journey of a young cheese professional as she navigates the worlds of formal and informal education and the craft and art of cheesemaking. Her self-education is examined as she appropriates available resources in the service of constructing a professional learning program in the world and on the job. As she both succeeds and bumps up against obstacles in the pursuit of a life and a future in uncharted territory, we explore her being and becoming a professional cheesemaker, affineur and cheesemonger. A parallel story of an emerging educational researcher is examined as he partners with the cheese professional, propelling both of their stories into uncharted territory.
Table of ContentsForeword: Learning from Lived Experience and Communicating What Has Been Learned Kenneth Tobin Preface Acknowledgments A Readers’ Guide 1 The Researchers and the Researched 1 Researcher: Mitch 2 Researcher: Ashley 3 The Research 2 Cheeseworld Odessey: The Self-Education of a Cheese Professional Mitch Bleier and Ashley N. Morton 1 Schooling vs Educating 2 Whose Story Is It? 3 Welcome to Cheeseworld 4 A Day in Cheeseworld 5 Trouble in Paradise: Three Illustrative Vignettes 6 The Science of Cheese 7 Embodied Knowledge 8 The Notebook 9 A Tale of Two (or Three) Cheese Shops 10 A Cheese Ambassador 11 For Educators to Consider 12 Finding Light in the Caves 13 In a Nutshell 14 Making Space for Difference 3 Life Itself: How We (Might) Educate 1 Real-World Learners in Artificial Learning Environments 2 Learning Embedded in Everyday Life: A Broader View of Educating 3 Alternative Approaches 4 Education within Institutions 5 External Control 6 Reviving the Old Ways 7 Brief Educational Biographies 8 Learning and Teaching in Cheeseworld 9 Intelligent Minds and Useful Bodies 4 What Now? 1 On Race and Gender and Old-Boy Networks 2 A New Set of Challenges 3 All Roads Lead to Romano 4 A Path to a Bright Horizon Paved with Good Intentions… and Some Not-so-Good Intentions 5 Between Two Worlds 6 An American Cheesemonger in Paris 5 The Journey Continues 1 Capital and Confidence 2 Border Control 3 Social Media 4 The Road Ahead 6 The Nature of This Research 1 Characteristics of the Research 2 Collaboration, Coresearching and Cowriting 7 How Do You Know That? On Science as a Knowledge System among Knowledge Systems 1 Biography of a Science Educator: Indoctrination to Reprogramming 2 Upending the West-Is-Best Hegemony 3 Whose Knowledge Is It? 4 A Place for Science 5 Two Personal Revolutions 6 Knowledge Systems: Competing or Complementary? 7 Generalizability, Family Resemblances, and Knowledge Production as Reproduction with Transformation References Index
