Brent Davis

Inventions of Teaching

A Genealogy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title is an examination of metaphors for and synonyms of teaching. It offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies - and that are in some ways maintained by those vocabularies, in spite of inconsistencies and incompatibilities among popular terms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780805850390
• ISBN-10: 0805850392
• Artikelnr.: 25854419

Autorenporträt

Brent Davis

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Inventions of Teaching: Structures of Thinking. Western
Worldviews: The Metaphysical v. the Physical. The Metaphysical: Gnosis v.
Episteme. Gnosis: Mysticism v. Religion. Mysticism: Teaching as Drawing
Out. Religion: Teaching as Drawing In. Episteme: Rationalism v. Empiricism.
Rationalism: Teaching as Instructing. Empiricism: Teaching as Training. The
Physical: Intersubjectivity v. Interobjectivity. Intersubjectivity:
Structuralism v. Poststructuralism. Structuralism: Teaching as
Facilitating. Poststructuralism: Teaching as Empowering. Interobjectivity:
Complexity Science v. Ecology. Complexity Science: Teaching as Occasioning.
Ecology: Teaching as Conversing. Reinventions of Teaching: Expanding the
Space of the Possible. Appendices.A Genealogical Tree of Contemporary
Conceptions of Teaching. A Brief Introduction to Fractals. Clustered
Glossary.