The adventure of education Process philosophers on learning, teaching, and research

This book on process-relational philosophy of education suggests that the notion of Adventure is foundational for the advancement of knowledge. Learning, teaching, and research are best conceived as rhythmic and relational processes, involving curiosity, imagination, valuation, creativity, and self-...

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Hlavní autor: Scarfe, Adam C.
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam Rodopi 2009
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Brill
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Edice:Value inquiry book series. 204. Philosophy of education
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Erziehungsphilosophie
ISBN:9042025883, 9789042025882
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  • 3. Perception -- 4. The Flight of Discovery -- 5.Maturation -- 6. The Five-Minded Animal -- 7. The Evolution of Consciousness -- 8. Archaic Mind -- 9. Magic Mind -- 10. MythicMind -- 11. Mental Mind -- 12. Integral Mind -- 13. Conclusion -- SEVEN Steps to a Process Curriculum -- 1. A Cognetic Methodology and Basic Formative Processes -- 2. The Importance of Curiosity and Imagination in the Educational Process -- 3. The Cognetic Process: An Antidote to Alienation -- 4. The Process of Contextual Perceiving -- 5. The Nature of Contextual Perceiving -- 6. Horizontal and Vertical Knowledge -- 7. The Three Perceptual Contexts -- 8. The Epigenetic Learning Hierarchy -- 9. The Extracted Fact and the Abstracted Fact -- 10. A Commentary Regarding the Nature of the Linguistic Symbol -- 11. Affordances -- 12. The Problem of the Ignorance of Scientific Knowledge -- 13. The AEIOU Curriculum Framework -- 14. Conclusion -- EIGHT The Body as a Companion in Education: An Interpretation of Whitehead's Notion of the Withness of the Body -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Withness of the Body in Process and Reality -- 3. The Withness of the Body as Applied to Aesthetics -- 4. The Withness of the Body and Whitehead's Educational Model -- 5. Education and Expression -- NINE On Whitehead's Thoughts Concerning Teaching, Learning, and the Way of Liberal Education -- 1. Arendt and the Crisis in American Education -- 2. Liberal Education in Historical Context -- 3. The Three Characteristics of Liberal Education -- 4. The Usefulness of Liberal Education -- 5. Liberal Education's Orientation in Respect to Time -- 6. Literature, Aesthetic Appreciation, and Whitehead's Synthesis of Liberal and Technical Education -- 7. Conclusion: Some Further Metaphysical Reflections on the Meaning of Liberal Education
  • Intro -- THE ADVENTURE OF EDUCATION: Process Philosophers on Learning, Teaching, and Research -- CONTENTS -- ONE Introduction: The Adventure of Education -- 1. Who Was Whitehead? -- 2. Whitehead's Articulation of the Analogy Between Education and Adventure -- 3. The Distinction Between Adventurous Teaching and the Mere Transmission of Inert Ideas -- 4. Adventure, the Vitality of Society, and Constructive Postmodernism -- 5. Adventure and the Rhythm of Education -- 6. The Context Surrounding the Origin of this Book -- 7. A Brief Synopsis of the Essays Contained in this Book -- TWO The Missing Link: Whitehead and the Relation Between the Aesthetic and the Analytical in Education -- 1. The Problem of the Analytic and the Aesthetic in Whitehead's Educational Theory -- 2. The Importance of Relating the Context and the Practical Significance of Curricula to Students -- 3. A Criticism of the Curriculum of the Contemporary University -- 4. Conclusion: A Challenge to Whiteheadians -- THREE Helical Learning -- 1. Line, Circle, Helix -- 2. Civilized Virtues and Educational Stages -- 3. The Function of Art -- 4. Helical Learning -- 5. Educational Implications -- FOUR Education as a Process: Whitehead's the Aims of Education Revisited -- 1. Some Basic Themes in Whitehead's Educational Theory -- 2. The Importance of Active Learning -- 3. Some Practical Whiteheadian Pedagogical Suggestions -- 4. Some Further Whiteheadian Observations -- FIVE The Importance of Big Ideas or How to Encourage Active Wisdom -- 1. The Failure of Modern Universities to Focus on Big Ideas and to Promote Active Wisdom -- 2. The Three Forms of University: Civic, Research, and Entrepreneurial -- 3. Enter the Constructive Postmodern University -- 4. The Curriculum of the Whiteheadian University -- SIX Educating the Five-Minded Animal -- 1. A Fractal Universe -- 2. The Rhythm of Life
  • TEN Whitehead's Prehending and Dewey's Experimenting: Speculative Philosophy Versus Educational Theory in Twentieth Century One-Room Schoolhouses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Whitehead and Dewey -- 3. Prehending -- 4. Experimenting -- 5. Philosophical Commonalities -- 6. Concrescence Versus Growth -- 7. Relating Versus Cogitating in One-Room Schoolhouses -- ELEVEN The Cosmological Foundations of Learning as Valuing: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Designing University Courses -- 1. Brumbaugh's Cosmic Vision: A Whiteheadian Framework for Learning as Valuing -- 2. Reductionism in Learning: Problems in Higher Education -- 3. The Notion of Value in Whitehead's Cosmology -- 4. God in Learning as Valuing: The Primordial Lure and the Consequent Reality -- 5. Space and Time in Learning as Valuing -- 6. Transformative Praxis: Valuation in Course Redesign -- 7. Conclusion -- TWELVE The Problem of the Overemphasis on Precision in Academic Research: Whiteheadian Solutions -- 1. Academic Research as Interpretable Through Whitehead's Theory of the Rhythm of Education and the Problem of the Overemphasis on Precision -- 2. Putting Romance and Generalization Back into Research -- 3. The Teacher-Scholar Model, Research-Intensiveness, and the Bifurcation of Teaching and Research in the Academy -- 4. A Whiteheadian Conception of the Logical Contrast Between Researching and Teaching -- 5. The Integration of Learning, Teaching, and Research -- 6. The Relevance of Whitehead's Theory of Prehensions to a Balanced Conception of Academic Research -- 7. Romance and the Research Process: Wonder, Curiosity, and Imagination -- 8. Precision and the Research Process: Analysis, Criticism, and Selectivity -- 9. Generalization and the Research Process: Connectedness, Synthesis, and Speculation -- 10. Conclusion: Research as Intellectual Adventure -- About the Contributors -- Index -- VIBS