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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786915903321

Autore

Halpin David

Titolo

Romanticism and education : love, heroism and imagination in pedagogy / / David Halpin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London] ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-4411-1760-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in education

Disciplina

370.1

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Progressive education

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 (pages [151]-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Progressive education and romantic energy -- Romantic images of childhood : from innocence to transcendence -- An education in nature and dissent : the romantics at school -- Education and romantic love : passion and gusto in pedagogy -- Heroizing pedagogy and school management -- Pedagogy and the romantic imagination -- Romantic intellectualism and persuasive eloquence : Hazlitt and the art of educational criticism.

Sommario/riassunto

In this original book, David Halpin argues that an understanding of the Romantic roots of progressive education is a necessary condition for restoring to critical consciousness some important, but currently neglected, basic ideas about teaching and learning - ideas about the importance of imaginative experience and its promotion; ideas about the high status that should be conferred on childhood; ideas about the importance of love and friendship in schooling; ideas about the positive role that heroism can play in making learning more effective; and ideas about viewing teaching as a critical vo