Peter Roberts, Herner Saeverot

Education and the Limits of Reason (eBook, PDF)

Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or philosophical texts can be helpful.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135050603
• Artikelnr.: 48799715

Autorenporträt

Peter Roberts is Professor of Education at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His primary areas of scholarship are philosophy of education and educational policy studies. His research interests include the ethics and politics of education, literature and education (with a particular focus on the work of Dostoevsky, Hesse and Camus), and tertiary education policy.

Herner Saeverot is Professor of Education at Western Norway University in Norway. His research focuses on existential education, literature and education, national and international perspectives of educational research, and educational policy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nordic Studies in Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Education and the Limits of Reason 1. Troubling Reason:
Notes from Underground Revisited 2. Love, Attention and Teaching: The
Brothers Karamazov 3. Passion as a Quality of Education: The Death of Ivan
Ilyich 4. Education, Rationality and the Meaning of Life: Tolstoy's
Confession 5. Pedagogy of the Gaze: An Educational Reading of Lolita 6.
Education Arrayed in Time: Nabokov and the Problem of Time and Space
Conclusion: Literature, Philosophy and Education References Credits