Full Description
Professor Tom Gage portrays eight modern educators and the development of their theories viewed from personal, cultural, and historical perspectives. He links their ideas to those of Fethullah Gülen, a highly influential educator of today who draws on an entirely different tradition.
Contents
Preface; Introduction: From Averroes to Voltaire & Kant to Gülen: Exchanges in a Caravanserai of Ideas; Pragmatism: Gülen Viewed from Deweys Century; Pedagogy, Explicit & Implicit: Montessori & Gülen Methodologies; Research: Gülens Ideas on Schooling in the Vygotskian Tradition; Outdoor Education as a Third Space: Compatibility of Gülen & Hahn; Genetic Epistemology: Jean Piaget & Fethullah Gülen; Domains of Knowledge: Gülen & Benjamin Bloom; Bandura & Gülen: Social Modeling, Cognition, & Self-Efficacy; Holism: Gülen & Moffetts Universe of Discourse; Culture & Social Contextualism; Conclusion.