Inventions of Teaching

Zusatztext "Teaching artists need resources like this one to help strengthen both their practice and their ability to communicate the intentions of their practice more explicitly to themselves! their colleagues! their learners! and even their funders. Inventions of Teaching offers an accessible window for reflecting on the diversity of the language of teaching and to expand the range of practices available to us." --Jack Yantis! Antioch University! Teaching Artist Journal! 2007 Informationen zum Autor Brent Davis Klappentext First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. "Teaching artists need resources like this one to help strengthen both their practice and their ability to communicate the intentions of their practice more explicitly to themselves, their colleagues, their learners, and even their funders. Inventions of Teaching offers an accessible window for reflecting on the diversity of the language of teaching and to expand the range of practices available to us." --Jack Yantis, Antioch University, Teaching Artist Journal, 2007 Zusammenfassung This work is an examination of metaphors for and synonyms of teaching which offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies - and that are in some ways maintained by those vocabularies, in spite of inconsistencies and incompatibilities among popular terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Inventions of Teaching: Structures of Thinking. Western Worldviews: The Metaphysical v. the Physical. The Metaphysical: Gnosis v. Episteme. Gnosis: Mysticism v. Religion. Mysticism: Teaching as Drawing Out. Religion: Teaching as Drawing In. Episteme: Rationalism v. Empiricism. Rationalism: Teaching as Instructing. Empiricism: Teaching as Training. The Physical: Intersubjectivity v. Interobjectivity. Intersubjectivity: Structuralism v. Poststructuralism. Structuralism: Teaching as Facilitating. Poststructuralism: Teaching as Empowering. Interobjectivity: Complexity Science v. Ecology. Complexity Science: Teaching as Occasioning. Ecology: Teaching as Conversing. Reinventions of Teaching: Expanding the Space of the Possible. Appendices. A Genealogical Tree of Contemporary Conceptions of Teaching. A Brief Introduction to Fractals. Clustered Glossary. ...

Autorentext

Brent Davis

Klappentext

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zusammenfassung
This work is an examination of metaphors for and synonyms of teaching which offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies - and that are in some ways maintained by those vocabularies, in spite of inconsistencies and incompatibilities among popular terms.

Inhalt

Contents: Inventions of Teaching: Structures of Thinking. Western Worldviews: The Metaphysical v. the Physical. The Metaphysical: Gnosis v. Episteme. Gnosis: Mysticism v. Religion. Mysticism: Teaching as Drawing Out. Religion: Teaching as Drawing In. Episteme: Rationalism v. Empiricism. Rationalism: Teaching as Instructing. Empiricism: Teaching as Training. The Physical: Intersubjectivity v. Interobjectivity. Intersubjectivity: Structuralism v. Poststructuralism. Structuralism: Teaching as Facilitating. Poststructuralism: Teaching as Empowering. Interobjectivity: Complexity Science v. Ecology. Complexity Science: Teaching as Occasioning. Ecology: Teaching as Conversing. Reinventions of Teaching: Expanding the Space of the Possible. Appendices.A Genealogical Tree of Contemporary Conceptions of Teaching. A Brief Introduction to Fractals. Clustered Glossary.