Andrea R. English

Discontinuity in Learning

Dewey, Herbart and Education as Transformation

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues for the educational value of discontinuous experiences such as doubt and struggle, based on fresh readings of John Dewey and J. F. Herbart.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9781107448612
• ISBN-10: 1107448611
• Artikelnr.: 41090979

Autorenporträt

Andrea English is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Canada. Dr English, an American scholar, previously taught at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, from which she received her doctorate in 2005. Her work on theories of teaching and learning has appeared internationally in scholarly journals and essay collections.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Why Herbart and Dewey?
Part I. Education, Discontinuity, and Transformation: 1. The moral dimension of education
2. The problem of continuity, the need for struggle, the role of tact
3. Discontinuity and educational openings in learning
4. Teaching in the openings of learning
5. Conclusion: morality, democracy, and pluralist society
Part II. Teaching and Learning Forgotten?: 6. Revisiting 'learning in-between' and umlernen
7. Pedagogical tact: learning to teach 'in-between'
8. Perfectibility and recognition of the other for education
Epilogue. Should teachers think? Re(dis)covering the meaning of philosophy for the education of teachers.