The New Significance of Learning: Imagination's Heartwork

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.

Copyright:

2010

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ISBN-13:

9781135193218

Related ISBNs:

9780203864487, 9780415549684, 9780415549684, 9780415549677, 9780415549677

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/22/20

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Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology

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