Israel Scheffler

In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (Routledge Revivals)

And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1991, In Praise of Cognitive Emotions comprises fourteen of Scheffler's most recent essays - all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty or a mechanism of inference but taken rather as the capactity to grasp principles and purposes and to evaluate them in the light of relevant reasons. Examining a broad range of issues - from computers in school to math education, from metaphor to morality - these essays are unified by Scheffler's conviction of the primacy of critical thought in education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780415581530
• ISBN-10: 0415581532
• Artikelnr.: 28955146

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Human Nature 1. In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (1977) 2. Human
Nature and Potential (1983) 3. Making and Understanding (1987) Part II:
Symbolism 4. Educational Metaphors (1960) 5. Ten Myths of Metaphor (1988)
6. Symbol, Ritual, and Cognition (1989) Part III: Curriculum 7. Basic
Mathematical Skills (1976) 8. Computers at School? (1986) 9. Moral
Education Beyond Moral Reasoning (1990) Part IV: Education 10. The
Education of Policy-Makers (1984) 11. Four Languages of Education (1987)
12. Vice into Virtue, or Seven Deadly Sins of Education Redeemed (1989) 13.
John Dewey's Social and Educational Theory (1974) 14. Pragmatism as a
Philosophy (1984)