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Different Three Rs for Education : Reason, Relationality, Rhythm.
Title:
Different Three Rs for Education : Reason, Relationality, Rhythm.
Author:
Allan, George.
ISBN:
9789401201612
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Series:
Value Inquiry Book Series, 176 ; v.v. 176

Value Inquiry Book Series, 176
Contents:
CONTENTS -- ONE: Introduction: A Different Three Rs for Education in Context -- 1. Why a New Approach to Educational Reform is Needed -- 2. The First Different R: Reason -- 3. The Second Different R: Relationality -- 4. The Third Different R: Rhythm -- 5. Concluding Thoughts -- TWO: What is a Process Perspective on Teaching and Learning? -- 1. Becoming is a Process -- 2. Creativity is in All Creatures -- 3. The World is Interconnected -- 4. All Experience is Emotional -- 5. All Individuals are Constituted by Their Internal Relations -- 6. Conclusion -- THREE: On Learning to be Good -- 1. The Standard Ways -- 2. The Process Ways -- 3. Pathways to Goodness -- 4. Socratic Goading -- FOUR: Romancing Education: Whitehead on the Love of Learning -- 1. Romance Can be the Beginning of a Serious Love Affair -- 2. The Work of Romance is Serious Play -- 3. A Romance Story: Learning to be a Teacher -- 4. The Romance of Dialogue and Partnered Dialogue-Journals -- 5. More on the Romance of Dialogue: Student-Directed Class Inquiry -- 6. Romancing Education: A Whiteheadian Vision -- FIVE: Genre, Relationality, and Whitehead's Principle of Relativity: How We Write -- 1. Genre's Recent History -- 2. Whitehead and Genre -- SIX: Whitehead and Environmental Education -- 1 Whitehead's Philosophy of Nature: An Historical Prelude -- 2. Some Concepts of Nature -- 3. Education -- 4. Education and the Earth -- SEVEN: Finding Flow through Discipline and Imagination -- 1. Three Stages of Learning -- 2. Flow Experiences -- 3. Relating Flow to Learning -- 4. An Example: Teaching Logic -- 5. Another Example: Teaching Literature -- 6. Conclusions -- EIGHT: Nourishing Relationships that Nourish Life -- 1. A Word of Warning: A Revealing Movie -- 2. A Word of Possibility: A Revealing Case Study -- 3. Relational Education -- 4. Relating with Self.

5. Relating with Community and Culture -- 6. Relating with People of Difference -- 7. Relating with the Earth -- 8. Relating with Social Structures -- 9. Conclusion -- NINE: They Wear Their Learning With Imagination -- 1. Describing the Content and Process for Practice-Based Professional Development -- 2. Three Foundational Assumptions -- 3. Student Authors as Advocates: Elementary School Case Study -- 4. Peer Tutors as Advocates: Middle School Case Study -- 5. Making Sense together with Colleagues -- 6. Practical Questions: Seeking Harmony and Discrepancies -- 7. In Summary: The Political Question is a Human Question -- 8. Concluding Synthesis and Creative Choices -- TEN: Teaching Etcetera -- 1. Language Games Approach -- 2. Modernism and the Mathematization of Reality -- 3. Language Games and a Change of Aspect -- 4. Wesley's Change of Aspect -- 5. Students' Experiences of Mathematics as Patterns and Relationships -- 6. Changing Ways of Seeing Mathematics -- 7. Understanding Teaching Etcetera -- ELEVEN: Reason: A Gift to be Nurtured -- 1. Why be Concerned about Reason? -- 2. What is Reason? -- 3. Can Reasonableness be an Aim of Education? -- 4. Is Critical Thinking Important? -- 5. What is the Reality of Reason in the Classroom? -- 6. Epilogue -- TWELVE: Educational Spiritualities: Parker J. Palmer and Relational Metaphysics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Objectivism and Cultures of Fear -- 3. Community -- 4. Hidden Wholeness -- 5. Paradoxes -- 6. Conclusion -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This book of twelve essays applies the holistic theories of process philosophy to the educational challenges that teachers face in today's complexly changing world. Topics range from staff development to spirituality, exploring issues of student and teacher motivation, developmental stages of learning, imaginative thinking and writing, nourishing relationships, moral and environmental education, and the development of hospitable learning environments.
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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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