A Pedagogy of Becoming - MILLS, Jon (ed.)
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This book advocates a return to the spirit of the Greek notion of paideia, emphasizing a pedagogy of becoming. The authors offer a holistic approach to education that aspires toward the inclusion, promotion, and nurturance of virtue and valuation. Topics range from the purely conceptual to applied methodology. Several key issues and contemporary trends in education are addressed philosophically, including the values of wisdom, morality, compassion, empathy, interdependence, authenticity, and self-understanding.
Contents:
George David MILLER: Editorial Foreword
Acknowledgements…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book advocates a return to the spirit of the Greek notion of paideia, emphasizing a pedagogy of becoming. The authors offer a holistic approach to education that aspires toward the inclusion, promotion, and nurturance of virtue and valuation. Topics range from the purely conceptual to applied methodology. Several key issues and contemporary trends in education are addressed philosophically, including the values of wisdom, morality, compassion, empathy, interdependence, authenticity, and self-understanding.

Contents:
George David MILLER: Editorial Foreword
Acknowledgements
Jon MILLS: Introduction: Paideia Reconsidered
I. PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
ONE David A. JOPLING: Can Wisdom Be Taught?
TWO Janusz A. POLANOWSKI: In Search of Moral Teaching
THREE Frank GRUBA-McCALLISTER: Education Through Compassion: Cultivating Our Mystical Vocation
II. ENACTMENTS AND APPLIED METHODOLOGY
FOUR George David MILLER: Abolishing Educational Welfare: Redrawing the Lines of Interdependency Through Dialogue
FIVE Jon MILLS: An Unorthodox Pedagogy: Fostering Empathy Through Provocation
SIX Guy ALLEN: The "Good Enough" Teacher and the Authentic Student
SEVEN Jeffrey TLUMAK: Teaching Through Discussion
EIGHT Marc LUBIN: The Classroom Experience as a Laboratory for Self-Understanding
NINE John LACHS and Shirley M. LACHS: Education in the Twenty-First Century
About the Contributors
Index