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The New Significance of Learning

- Imagination's Heartwork

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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.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal208
  • Udgivelsesdato02-11-2009
  • ISBN139780415549677
  • Forlag Routledge
  • FormatHardback
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  • Vægt453 g
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