Pedagogy left in peace
Subtitle: cultivating free spaces in teaching and learning
By: David W. Jardine
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group; Continuum; Bloomsbury Academic; Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781441113726; 9781441163295
Subjects: Aims and objectives; Philosophy; Education; Ontology
Description: "The idea of fragmentation has transformed the living, convivial pursuit of knowledge into something akin to an industrial assembly line. Schooling in North America is inherently based on this idea, working against the spirit of pedagogy and the very nature of knowledge itself. Fragmentation has lead to practices that are easily recognizable in schools such as surveillance, colonization, leveling, standardization, normalization and even oppression: the logic of fragmentation has lead to the breaking apart of the living disciplines of knowledge entrusted to teachers and students in the classroom. In this profound and challenging book, David Jardine explores some of the historical and philosophical ancestries of the logic of fragmentation and then lays out how the logic of fragmentation is being interrupted by progressive contemporary thinking about the nature of knowledge and its pursuit. Jardine uses real classroom examples to show how inspiring teachers and students have stepped out from the normal rigidity of the school system to pursue a pedagogy left in peace."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.