EDRD 3120 Chapter 2: Merriam and Heuer Article Notes (Week 2) - Copy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 3120
• Professor: Susan Brown

Document Summary

Meaning-making, adult learning and development: a model with implications for practice- merriam & heuer: Meaning: an individually constructive cognitive system, that is grounded in values and is capable of endowing life and personal significance and satisfaction. Meaning making has several aspects: a cognitive dimension, activities and life as a while, a motivational aspect, an affective dimension that makes a life worth living. Through the ages the drive to make meaning is represented in religions, myths, philosophies, scientific theories, and works of art. The movements and moments worth mentioning throughout time demonstrate the pervasiveness of the human need to make meaning, and how civilization through the ages have followed different routines to find the meaning of life. The efforts to find the meaning of life can be characterized into: the theological which places meaning in the determination of a god, the metaphysical which sets in nature, the critical which places it in human will.