Learning Through Dialogue - The Relevance of Martin Buber''s Classroom

Learning Through Dialogue offers an alternative approach to teaching and learning, which utilizes Martin Buber's dialogical principles: turning toward, addressing affirmatively, listening attentively, and responding responsibly. The book first presents Buber's educational theory and method and second presents specific examples of how Buber's dialogical philosophy can be applied in the classroom.

List of contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Part I THEORY/METHOD
Chapter 1 Buber's Two Ways of Learning
Chapter 2 Buber's Method of Inclusion
Chapter 3 Teaching as Unteaching
Chapter 4 The Broadest Frame: Dialogue as Meta-Methodology

Part II APPLICATION/PRACTICE
Chapter 5 Dialogues with Texts
Chapter 6 Dialogues with Students
Chapter 7 Interview Dialogues
Chapter 8 Journal Dialogues

Conclusion
Critical Terms
Works Cited
Notes
Index

About the author

Kenneth Paul Kramer is a professor emeritus of Comparative Religious Studies at San Jose State University. He is the author of three other books on Martin Buber, including Martin Buber's "I and Thou": Practicing Living Dialogue (2003).

Summary

Learning Through Dialogue offers an alternative approach to teaching and learning, which utilizes Martin Buber's dialogical principles: turning toward, addressing affirmatively, listening attentively, and responding responsibly. The book first presents Buber's educational theory and method and second presents specific examples of how Buber's dialogical philosophy can be applied in the classroom.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Kramer, Kenneth Paul Kramer, KRAMER KENNETH, Kramer Kenneth Paul
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2013
• EAN: 9781475804393
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-0439-3
• No. of pages: 122
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Philosophy & theory of education, Teaching skills & techniques, Philosophy and theory of education, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies