Full Description
This book on process-relational philosophy of education suggests that the notion of Adventure is foundational for the advancement of knowledge. Learning, teaching, and research are best conceived as rhythmic and relational processes, involving curiosity, imagination, valuation, creativity, and self-realization. Thus construed, contemporary educational practices can be revitalized from pedagogies of information retention and the current overemphasis on analytic precision.
Contents
Adam C. Scarfe: Introduction: The Adventure of Education
Pete A. Y. Gunter: The Missing Link: Whitehead and the Relation Between the Aesthetic and the Analytical in Education
George Allan: Helical Learning
Richard Penaskovic: Education as a Process: Whitehead's The Aims of Education Revisited
Marcus Ford: The Importance of Big Ideas or How to Encourage Active Wisdom
Bernie Neville: Educating the Five-Minded Animal
Hillel A. Schiller: Steps to a Process Curriculum
Jean-Marie Breuvart: The Body as a Companion in Education: An Interpretation of Whitehead's Notion of the Withness of the Body
Jean-Pascal Alcantara: On Whitehead's Thoughts Concerning Teaching, Learning, and the Way of Liberal Education
Kathleen Gershman: Whitehead's Prehending and Dewey's Experimenting: Speculative Philosophy Versus Educational Theory in Twentieth Century One-Room Schoolhouses
Robert Regnier: The Cosmological Foundations of Learning as Valuing: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Designing University Courses
Adam C. Scarfe: The Problem of the Overemphasis on Precision in Academic Research: Whiteheadian Solutions
About the Contributors
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