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Cognitive Development: The Learning Path of Community Development Practitioners

Cognitive Development: The Learning Path of Community Development Practitioners
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Author(s): Jin Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on E-Learning Applications for Career and Technical Education: Technologies for Vocational Training
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viktor Wang (California State University at Long Beach, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-739-3.ch055

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Abstract

Adults continue to learn and revise their representation of knowledge scheme with a rational reflection on previous experience and interlink to action in the social setting. There is little knowledge about this cognitive process in China as collectivist conformity to a totalitarian state has been the mainstream culture. This chapter presents a case of cognitive development of a group of university graduates who started their first career in NGOs. The stretching-on four stages of cognitive development are represented as: a) Getting away from the authority reference; b) Landing on opened-up horizons of reflection; c) Building up interlinks across knowledge scheme and action; and d) Linking cycles of experience with appropriation.

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