Agony in Education - The Importance of Struggle in the Process of Learning

Kuhlman exposes the dangers of excessive reliance on technical efficiency and avoidance of pain in the individual struggle to become educated and calls for renewed recognition of the importance of effort and agony in human accomplishment.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tyranny of Technology
Struggle and Civility
The Agon Motif
Agonism in Education
Transcendence and Technology
Ciphering the Schools
A Note about Narcissism
Agon and Motivation
Imagery of Agony
Agon and Creativity
Agon and Athletic Imagery
Agon and Military Metaphors
Experiential Education
A Modest Proposal: Agonic Curriculum
Bibliography
Index

About the author

EDWARD L. KUHLMAN is Professor of Education at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. He is the author of An Overwhelming Interference (1985) and Master Teacher (1987).

Product details

• Authors: Edward Kuhlman, Edward L. Kuhlman
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.1994
• EAN: 9780897893749
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-374-9
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Current Events and Issues: Education