Discontinuity in Learning - Dewey, Herbart and Education As Transformation

"In this groundbreaking book, Andrea R. English challenges common assumptions by arguing that discontinuous experiences, such as uncertainty and struggle, are essential to the learning process. To make this argument, Dr. English draws from the works of two seminal thinkers in philosophy of education - nineteenth-century German philosopher J. F. Herbart and American Pragmatist John Dewey. English's analysis considers Herbart's influence on Dewey, inverting the accepted interpretation of Dewey's thought asa dramatic break from modern European understandings of education." --

List of contents

Prologue. Why Herbart and Dewey?; Part I. Education, Discontinuity, and Transformation: 1. The moral dimension of education; 2. The problem of continuity, the need for struggle, the role of tact; 3. Discontinuity and educational openings in learning; 4. Teaching in the openings of learning; 5. Conclusion: morality, democracy, and pluralist society; Part II. Teaching and Learning Forgotten?: 6. Revisiting 'learning in-between' and umlernen; 7. Pedagogical tact: learning to teach 'in-between'; 8. Perfectibility and recognition of the other for education; Epilogue. Should teachers think? Re(dis)covering the meaning of philosophy for the education of teachers.

About the author

Andrea English is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Canada. Dr English, an American scholar, previously taught at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, from which she received her doctorate in 2005. Her work on theories of teaching and learning has appeared internationally in scholarly journals and essay collections.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea English, Andrea R. English
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107448612
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44861-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology