From cognition to being : prolegomena for teachers
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Title (Dublin Core)
From cognition to being : prolegomena for teachers
Creator (Dublin Core)
Henry Davis McHenry
Date (Dublin Core)
1999
Publisher (Dublin Core)
University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa
Description (Dublin Core)
In this book, McHenry challenges the still-regnant paradigm of knowledge acquisition as the end and means of schooling, supplanting it with an inquiry into what knowledge is. Tracing the development of the idea of knowledge from its roots in Descartes and Locke through the ontological turn in Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Buber, he provides an alternative rationale and vocabulary for a practice of schooling that engages teachers with students in <i>being-together-and-inventing. </i>Philosophically centered though accessibly written, with examples from the author’s personal experiences with his own child and his students, the book engages the reader in inquiry rather than argument, leaving her not with a list of tips and prescriptions, but with a capacity for encounter with the actual persons in her classroom.
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Subject (Dublin Core)
Society & social sciences; Education
Language (Dublin Core)
English
isbn (Bibliographic Ontology)
9780776615967
9780776604558
9780776604558
doi (Bibliographic Ontology)
10.26530/OAPEN_578817
Rights (Dublin Core)
All rights reserved
