Joan Ball

Learning Everywhere invites readers to engage in a radical re-conceptualisation of learning spaces by challenging definitions of what counts as a learning space, and asserting that bounded learning spaces are insufficient for learning in a postdigital era. Chapters explore how learning spaces have expanded and evolved, and how learners navigate, connect, and apply structured and unstructured learning to answer three main questions: • What kinds of learning spaces might enable social, emotional, cognitive, and moral/ethical/spiritual identity development in postdigital learning environments? • How is learning to be negotiated, constructed and embodied as a social practice within dynamic cultural contexts in the postdigital age? • How do learners and educators design, experience and assess learning within and across various learning domains? This book will encourage educators across disciplines to reimagine learning and development for a postdigital age.

Learning Everywhere invites readers to engage in a radical re-conceptualisation of learning spaces by challenging definitions of what counts as a learning space, and asserting that bounded learning spaces are insufficient for learning in a postdigital era. Chapters explore how learning spaces have expanded and evolved, and how learners navigate, connect, and apply structured and unstructured learning to answer three main questions: • What kinds of learning spaces might enable social, emotional, cognitive, and moral/ethical/spiritual identity development in postdigital learning environments? • How is learning to be negotiated, constructed and embodied as a social practice within dynamic cultural contexts in the postdigital age? • How do learners and educators design, experience and assess learning within and across various learning domains? This book will encourage educators across disciplines to reimagine learning and development for a postdigital age.

Joan started writing in 1973 at a time when she was desperate, alone and faced with life-changing decisions. She started scribbling down her feelings on scraps of paper, and never stopped writing for the next 40 years. Her scribbling turned into her autobiography. An ordinary woman from London's East end, Joan lived an extraordinary life, becoming the youngest Mayoress ever. The first person to set up a computer dating service, she became a successful business-woman and a psychic counsellor, all whilst battling with the then-unknown problem of dyslexia. "I wrote my life-story from my gut, not my brain. I've never read a book in my life, and go to pieces when I have to write a letter." Joan did not have an easy life, but after painful loss and much sorrow and illness, she finds peace and fulfilment in dance. An inspiring life told with humour and a forgiving spirit.

As a thirty-seven-year-old, highly skeptical, deeply rational woman, Joan had it all: loving family, extravagant home, a high-profile career, even personal contentment. So Joan was more surprised than anyone when she was relieved in an instant from the luxury of spiritual doubt and compelled to realign her life around practices of faith--about which she was a novice. With an unexplainable desire to pursue whatever God had for her at whatever cost was called for, Joan left her high-salary profession, sold her home and all her furniture (with her husband's support), and started life from a blank slate. Finally realizing that she had been flirting with faith since she was a young teen, Joan fell in love with the God who had been pursuing her. Joan candidly shares the story of her radical life change as she moved from atheist, to agnostic in addiction recovery, to the unexpected moment when she was "struck" Christian. As Joan lets go of control and convention, her skepticism is gradually replaced with a realization that embracing her new faith with radical abandon led to a far more mysterious and countercultural lifestyle than she'd ever imagined.