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1 online resource (v, 250 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index. |
| Contents |
Inventions of Teaching: Structures of Thinking -- Western Worldview: 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 Scale of the Possible -- Appendix A.A Genealogical Tree of Contemporary Conceptions of Teaching -- Appendix B.A Brief Introduction to Fractals -- Appendix C. Clustered Glossary. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Teaching -- Philosophy.
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Teaching -- Philosophy. |
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Education -- History.
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Education. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, Brent. Inventions of teaching. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004 0805850384 0805850392 (DLC) 2003061552 (OCoLC)52962908 |
| ISBN |
1410610098 (electronic book) |
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9781410610096 (electronic book) |
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9780805850383 |
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0805850384 |
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9780805850390 |
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0805850392 |
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0805850384 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0805850392 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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