| Edition |
Pbk. ed. |
| Description |
viii, 260 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-255) and index. |
| Summary |
"In recent years ideas about therapy have found their way increasingly into educational practice: there is Circle Time in the elementary school and a new emphasis on self-esteem, there is assertiveness training and stress management for adults, and the bookshop shelves are heavy with volumes on self-help. In a different vein, and since ancient times, education has itself often been thought of as a kind of therapy....This book examines the many connections between education and therapy, critically but sympathetically. It brings to bear on areas of confusion and mystification the philosophical attention that has sometimes been thought of as potentially therapeutic and conducive to personal growth and understanding"--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
Self-esteem : the inward turn -- Diffidence, confidence and self-belief -- What can be said, what can be shown -- Reading narrative -- Learning to change -- Practising dying -- Room for thought -- The Thoreau strategy -- A state of abstraction : knowledge and contingency -- Unfinished business : education without necessity -- Beyond cure -- Narrative and number : what really counts -- Learning from psychoanalysis -- Enlarging the enigma -- Expectation of return. |
| Subject |
Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Philosophy. |
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Psychotherapy.
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Psychotherapy. |
| Added Author |
Smith, Richard (Richard D.)
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Standish, Paul, 1949-
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| ISBN |
9780230247093 paperback |
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0230247091 paperback |
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