Bridges to autonomy
Subtitle: Paradoxes in teaching and learning
By: Matthew R. Silliman and David Kenneth Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, David Kenneth
Publisher: Piraeus Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Williamstown, (Mass.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780983185383
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge; Education
Other titles: Paradoxes in teaching and learning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : between bridges and the reader; title: Between authority and autonomy. Grumpy faces ; Problems of paternalism ; Grounding paternalism ; Interlude : Jules Randolph Govier; title: Between teaching and learning. What is learning? ; Learning something as knowing how ; Lecture on lectures ; Consuming learning ; Between knower and known ; Constructivist realism ; Interlude : Russell Steadman; title: Between neutrality and justice. Liberating reason ; The politics of teaching ; Critical thinking and neutrality ; Two notions of criticality ; Interlude : Alison Bridges; title: Between structure and creativity. Creativity and imagination ; Educating taste ; Pedagogical improvisations ; Interlude : Jules Randolph Govier.; title: Between showing and telling. A new Socratism? ; Socratic problems ; Stories, feelings, reason ; Teaching and deception ; Teachers as tricksters ; Interlude : Russell Steadman; title: Between content and character. Socratic "values education"? ; Character and intellectual virtues ; Indoctrination and reason ; Narrative imagination and felt reasons ; Educational competition? ; Interlude : Alison Bridges; title: Bridges to the reader. What's a paradox? ; Is dialogue really philosophy? ; Alternatives to compulsory schooling? ; How can we become ourselves? ; Isn't philosophy competitive? ; Memorization and creativity? ; Personal strategies for structural problems? ; To teach or not to teach; title: Epilogue.