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At Home in the World : Human Nature, Ecological Thought, and Education after Darwin.
Title:
At Home in the World : Human Nature, Ecological Thought, and Education after Darwin.
Author:
Schwartz, Eilon.
ISBN:
9781438426426
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents:
at HOME in the WORLD -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Making of Darwinism -- DARWIN AND THE GOOD IN HUMAN NATURE -- 2. Nature's Lessons: Applying Evolutionary Theory to Educational Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century -- FROM PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE TO EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY -- SPENCER'S EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPOHY -- HUXLEY'S EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY -- KROPOTKIN'S EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY -- CONCLUSION -- 3. Dewey's Darwinism Human Nature and the Interdependence of Life -- CHANGE AND GROWTH ARE THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF DARWINISM -- HUMAN BEINGS CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD AS PART OF THE NATURAL WORLD -- THE NATURAL AND THE SOCIAL:DEWEY'S NOTION OF HABIT -- HUMAN BEINGS ARE BY NATURE SOCIAL ANIMALS, AND CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD THROUGH THEIR SOCIABILITY -- LIVING IN THE WORLD:DEMOCRACY AS A NATURAL VALUE -- DEWEY'S DARWINIAN EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY -- 4. Mary Midgley and the Ecological Telos -- INNATE NEEDS -- THE TELEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF HAVING NEEDS -- FEMINISM AND HUMAN NATURE:A CASE STUDY IN TELEOLOGICAL THINKING -- ON BUILDING A WHOLE LIFE -- MORAL OBJECTIVITY AND THE REALITY OF EVIL -- BREAKING DOWN THE IS/OUGHT DICHOTOMY -- A TRANSCENDENT LIFE -- 5. A Darwinian Education -- THE AIMS AND PURPOSES OF EDUCATION: A DARWINIAN PERSPECTIVE -- EMOTIONS AND REASON -- PARTICULARISM AND UNIVERSALISM -- FROM NATURE TO CULTURE: A DARWINIAN CURRICULUM -- CULTIVATING WONDER: EDUCATIONAL DIDACTICS -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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