Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom
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Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom

A Practical Guide for Education Philosophy Courses

  1. 382 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom

A Practical Guide for Education Philosophy Courses

About this book

Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom takes its readers into the deep waters of investigating teaching not simply as a profession but as a precious "way of life." The author begins by investigating the nature of teaching as both an "active" and a "contemplative" endeavor and inquires into the resonance between the nature of teaching on the one hand and what has been said classically about genuine philosophizing on the other hand.

Having laid the groundwork for students to be able to recognize this intimate connection, readers are next challenged to take up the notion of teaching as a "way of life" in the pursuit of wisdom experimentally and to record their observations in a personalized journal format. Thorough explanations are provided concerning the value of journaling for self-knowledge, and exemplar texts by master journal writers are discussed.

This book is designed for use as a primary textbook in philosophy of education courses. Instructors will find it helpful as a means to organize engaging classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels for genuine philosophic practices and inquiry. It contains a well-defined program of work that is modelled upon the latest research concerning "authentic task design." Its rich experimental approach is replete with a broad array of learning tasks, assessment tools, and practices that are aligned with the competencies-based approach taken in most professional certification and BEd Programs.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Figures
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: A Note to Instructors and Student-Teachers About How to Interact With This Book
  6. Chapter One: Journaling, Self-Knowledge, and Education
  7. Chapter Two: Plato’s Meno and Education
  8. Chapter Three: Plato’s Apology and Education
  9. Chapter Four: Isocrates—The Father of Modern Education
  10. Chapter Five: Francis Bacon and Education
  11. Chapter Six: Rene Descartes and Education
  12. Chapter Seven: John Locke and Education
  13. Chapter Eight: Rousseau’s Educational Ideas in the Emile
  14. Chapter Nine: John Dewey, Inquiry, and Progressive Education
  15. Chapter Ten: Maria Montessori and Seeing the Child in Education
  16. Chapter Eleven: Jean Piaget, Constructivism, and Seeing the Child in Education
  17. Chapter Twelve: Jacques Maritain and Education
  18. Chapter Thirteen: An Aporetic Ending? Assessment and the Pursuit of Wisdom in Education
  19. Appendix A: Assessment Tools
  20. Appendix B: Experiments for Philosophical Askesis
  21. Index