Therapy of Education - Philosophy, Happiness and Personal Growth

Zusatztext 'At a time when it seems that everyone! at whatever level of society! has fallen behind the banner of Business! blindly caught up in its ruthless and deadening rationality! it is such a relief to find writers so able to resist the trend. They remind us of a humane culture we seem to have forgotten! and their intelligent and illuminating understanding of the relations between education and 'therapy' sweeps away many of the absurdities that have over the past two or three decades invaded both.' David Smail former Special Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nottingham! and author of Illusion and Reality: the Meaning of Anxiety and Taking Care: an Alternative to Therapy. Informationen zum Autor PAUL STANDISH is Professor of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. PAUL SMEYERS is Professor of Education at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. RICHARD SMITH is Professor of Education at the University of Durham, UK. Klappentext The idea of education as therapy goes back to ancient times. Today, it is understood that the role of the teacher comprises aspects of therapy directed towards the child. But to what extent should this relationship be developed, and what are its concomitant responsibilities? This book offers a challenging philosophical approach to these issues. Zusammenfassung The idea of education as therapy goes back to ancient times. Today! it is understood that the role of the teacher comprises aspects of therapy directed towards the child. But to what extent should this relationship be developed! and what are its concomitant responsibilities? This book offers a challenging philosophical approach to these issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Aims of Therapy and the Aims of Education PART I: THE KINDLY APOCALYPSE Self-Esteem Learning to Change Building the Team: Showing not Saying PART II: COMING TO TERMS Learning Room Eliminating Risk Development and the Revival of the Self PART III: REDEEMING PHILOSOPHY Ordinary Lives: Enlarging the Enigma Work for the Psyche Narrative and Numbers: What Really Counts...

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• Authors: Paul Smeyers, Paul Smith Smeyers, Richard Smith, Paul Standish
• Assisted by: Smeyers (Editor), P Smeyers (Editor), P. Smeyers (Editor), Paul Smeyers (Editor), R Smith (Editor), R. Smith (Editor), Richard Smith (Editor), P. Standish (Editor), Paul Standish (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2006
• EAN: 9780230247093
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24709-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Philosophie, Religion, B, Philosophie des Geistes, Pädagogik: Theorie und Philosophie, Religion, allgemein, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Religion: general, Educational psychology, philosophy of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational Philosophy, Education—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy, general, Religious Studies, general