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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780370203321

Autore

Davis Brent

Titolo

Inventions of teaching [[electronic resource] ] : a genealogy / / Brent Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004

ISBN

1410610098

1-4106-1009-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

371.102/01

Soggetti

Teaching - Philosophy

Education - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 INVENTIONS OF TEACHING: STRUCTURES OF THINKING; 2 WESTERN WORLDVIEWS: THE METAPHYSICAL V THE PHYSICAL; 3 THE METAPHYSICAL: GNOSIS V EPISTEME; 4 GNOSIS: MYSTICISM V RELIGION; 5 MYSTICISM: TEACHING AS DRAWING OUT; 6 RELIGION: TEACHING AS DRAWING IN; 7 EPISTEME: RATIONALISM V EMPIRICISM; 8 RATIONALISM: TEACHING AS INSTRUCTING; 9 EMPIRICISM: TEACHING AS TRAINING; 10 THE PHYSICAL: INTERSUBJECTIVITY V INTEROBJECTIVITY; 11 INTERSUBJECTIVITY: STRUCTURALISM V POSTSTRUCTURALISM; 12 STRUCTURALISM: TEACHING AS FACILITATING

13 POSTSTRUCTURALISM: TEACHING AS EMPOWERING14 INTEROBJECTIVITY: COMPLEXITY SCIENCE V ECOLOGY; 15 COMPLEXITY SCIENCE: TEACHING AS OCCASIONING; 16 ECOLOGY: TEACHING AS CONVERSING; 17 REINVENTIONS OF TEACHING: EXPANDING THE SPACE OF THE POSSIBLE; APPENDIX A: A GENEALOGICAL TREE OF CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTIONS OF TEACHING; APPENDIX B: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO FRACTALS; APPENDIX C: CLUSTERED GLOSSARY; ENDNOTES; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS & DEDICATION; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy is a powerful examination of current 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. The concern that frames the book is how speakers of English invented (in the original sense of the word, ""came upon"") our current vocabularies for teaching. Conceptually, this book is unique in the educatio