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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One; Origins; 1 The Place of Pedagogy; The Cost of Expansion; Markets and Consumers; A Privatized Public; The Pedagogicized University; 2 Public Education; Educating 'The Masses'; Technology and 'Progress'; Culture and 'Growth'; Remaking 'The Public'; 3 The Interpretive Tradition; The Interpreted World; The Fusion of Horizons; The Power of Prejudice; Beyond Method; Part Two; The Legacy; 4 Becoming Thoughtful: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975); Arendt and Heidegger; 'No Pillars and Props' |
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The Eichmann Trial'Representative Thinking'; Thought and Action; 5 Becoming Attentive: John Berger (b.1926); Shifting Perspectives; An Imagined Conversation; Escaping the Nominal; Brief as Photos; 6 Becoming Worldly: Edward W. Said (1935-2003); In the World; The World in the Book; The Book in the World; For the World; 7 Becoming Responsive: Martha C. Nussbaum (b.1947); Goodness and Vulnerability; Responsiveness and Relationality; The 'Central Capabilities'; The Capabilities and Education; Part Three; Futures; 8 Open Futures; Prologue: A University Under Occupation; A Futures Curriculum. |
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Becoming OurselvesPedagogy as Quest; 9 Educated Publics; Prologue: Cross-border Transformations; De-professionalizing Ethics; Institutional Ethos; The Primacy of Practice; Pedagogy and Connectivity; 10 Pedagogic Spaces; Prologue: The Story of Xiang Li; Pedagogy as a Practice; Dissensus and Relationality; Relationality and Openness; References; Index. |
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Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we understand and interpret the world and how our understandings and interpretations act on that world. Jon Nixon focuses on the work of four public intellectuals each of whom reaches out to a wide public readership and develops our understanding regarding the nature of interpretation in the everyday world: Hannah Arendts work on representative thin. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. |
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Berger, John.
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Berger, John. |
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Said, Edward W.
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Said, Edward W. |
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Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
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Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947- |
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. |
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy. |
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Teachers' classroom resources & material. |
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Colleges of higher education. |
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EDUCATION -- Higher. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Nixon, Jon. Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education : Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and their Legacies. London : Continuum International Publishing, ©2012 9781441117151 |
| ISBN |
9781441170996 (electronic book) |
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1441170995 (electronic book) |
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1441112650 |
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9781441112651 |
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9781441112651 |
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9781441117151 |
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9781472523273 |
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