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THE NEW SIGNIFICANCE OF LEARNING
IMAGINATION'S HEARTWORK |
| By: |
Padraig Hogan |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£39.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1135193215 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781135193218 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2009 |
| Pages: |
198 |
| Synopsis: |
Should education be understood mainly as a practice in its own right, or is it essentially a subordinate affair to be shaped and controlled by a society's powers-that-be?What difference does it make if students are chiefly viewed as recipients of a set of skills and knowledge, or as active participants in their own learning?? Does education have a responsibility in cultivating humanity's maturity, or are its purposes to be effectively matched to the functional requirements of a globalized age?? ? The New Significance of Learning explores these and other high-stakes questions. It challenges hierarchical and custodial conceptions of education that have been inherited as the `natural order' of things. It discloses a more original and imaginative understanding of educational practice, illustrating this understanding with frequent practical examples. ? Among the merits highlighted by this approach are: a recognition that education is first and foremost an invitation to join a renewed experience of quest and disclosure;a realisation that taking up and pursuing such an invitation is a basic right, as distinct from a privilege to be bestowed or withheld;? an awareness of the decisive importance of specific kinds relationships in practices of teaching and learning;an emphasis on the human qualities as well as the intellectual achievements nourished by dedicated communities of learning;an acknowledgement of partiality - of incompleteness and bias - in even the best of humankind's learning efforts;the emergence of a distinctive ethical orientation for education as a practice in its own right. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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