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This updated edition of Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy presents an examination of the many and varied metaphors of teaching in English. These metaphors serve as sites to excavate conflicting historical, con-ceptual, and philosophical influences that have contributed to modern teaching practices.
List of contents
PART 1: Inventing Modern Educational Obsessions
1. Inventing Teaching: Structures of Thinking
2. Inventing Humanness: Human ∨ Natural
3. Inventing WEIRDness: Westerners ∨ Everyone Else
PART 2: Western Inventions of Teaching
4. Western Truths: Correspondence ∨ Coherence
5. Correspondence Theories of Big “T” Truth: Gnosis ∨ Epistēmē
6. Gnosis: Mysticism ∨ Religion
Mysticism: teaching as drawing out
Religion: teaching as drawing in
7. Epistēmē: Rationalism ∨ Empiricism
Rationalism: teaching as instructing
Empiricism: teaching as training
8. Coherence Theories of Small “t” Truths: Interpretation ∨ Participation
9. Interpretation: Embodiment ∨ Embeddedness
Embodiment: teaching as facilitating
Embeddedness: teaching as enculturating
10. Participation: Emergence ∨ Enaction
Emergence: teaching as occasioning
Enaction: teaching as enminding
Interlude
PART 3: Non-WEIRD Inventions of Teaching
11. An Enaction of East Asia: teaching as proper being
12. An Enaction of South Asia: teaching as struing
13. An Enaction of the Americas: teaching as present-ing
14. An Enaction of Oceania: teaching as immerging
15. An Enaction of Africa: teaching as enhabiting
16. Reinventing Teaching: teaching as expanding the space of the possible
About the author
Brent Davis is Professor and Werklund Research Professor with the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Angus McMurtry is Associate Professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Summary
This updated edition of Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy presents an examination of the many and varied metaphors of teaching in English. These metaphors serve as sites to excavate conflicting historical, con-ceptual, and philosophical influences that have contributed to modern teaching practices.
