Gestalt Learning: Perception, Pattern, and Presence in Learning Design: A Reflective Guide to Coherent, Human-Centered Learning Design (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798282899450)

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How do we design learning that doesn't just inform, but transforms?
Gestalt Learning invites you into a deeper understanding of perception, pattern, and presence in instructional design. Rooted in Gestalt psychology and enriched by decades of design practice, this book offers a reflective and practical framework for creating whole, human-centered learning experiences.
Through 28 poetic and insightful chapters, you'll explore how meaning emerges-not just from content, but from emotion, rhythm, story, silence, and system. You'll encounter design as craft, care, and world-making. This is not a manual. It's a compass for the designer who wants to shape learning that resonates through clarity, equity, and imagination.
Whether you're an instructional designer, educator, learning architect, or systems thinker, Gestalt Learning offers language for what you've sensed but couldn't always name-and guidance for the patterns you are here to create.
Topics include:

• Gestalt theory applied to visual, emotional, and structural design
• Co-design with AI and ethical presence in digital spaces
• Equity, cultural perception, and the quiet curriculum
• Systems thinking, feedback loops, and pattern recognition
• Crisis-informed design and perceptual wholeness
• The identity and inner life of the learning designer

A book for those who design not just what is seen, but how it is seen.

Author: Benson Njoroge
ISBN-13: 9798282899450
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2025
Pages: 102
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d