Book Review: The Learning Self: Understanding the Potential for Transformation by Tennant, M.

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Learning Self: Understanding the Potential for Transformation by Mark Tennant (2012). In The Learning Self , the author sets out to explore ways in which the idea of the self has been conceptualized and to show how psychologists, teachers, and others have attempted to assist their clients and students in self-development and making personal change. The book offers an extensive exploration of the literature in adult education and psychology, as well as popular conceptions of the self, and illuminates how practitioners spur on and individuals make these kinds of changes. However, the book is divided into chapters on the various ways of thinking about the self, and while the chapters flow well together, as a practitioner I felt there needed to be a synthesis chapter at the end of the book. The book will be useful to both academics and practitioners because of the theoretical and practical discussions within the book. It will most likely be a springboard for further theoretical syntheses, but particularly for research and literature on practice because it gives direction to practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)