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Title: Aims of Education by Alfred North Whitehead ISBN: 0-02-935180-4 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1967 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Extremely Timely Teaching
Comment: Although most of these essay were written over eight decades ago, I found them to be extremely timely, especially the title essay. Whitehead shoots straight. He begins by stating that most teachers transmit "inert" ideas in their practice--they teach material that has to practicable bearing on providing any meaningful help to students.
He identifies three different stages or rhythms in educational methodology that happen in tandem and in rotation (I visualize a geocentric universe filled with epicycles of rotating moons and planets to illustrate the layers and rings of motion in teaching). He bases these stages on Hegel's Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis, but he adapts them to the classroom and human learning. He calls these rhythms Romance, Precision, and Generalization. In Romance, the teacher needs to awake the sense of wonder and curiosity in a student's mind. This will provide the impetus to pursue the learning to the next stage: Precision. In the second stage, the student studies by drill and repetition the formulae, rules, and grammars that build upon a thorough knowledge of a filed. In the third stage, Whitehead declares that the student needs to move into a realm of Generaliztion. In this rhythm, the student makes connections, applications, and full, mature usage of the material and ideas.
I wish more teachers and teachers interested in developing their pedagogical methodolgy would take the time to read this short masterful book.
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Title: Experience And Education by John Dewey ISBN: 0684838281 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Democracy And Education by John Dewey ISBN: 0684836319 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Philosophical Documents in Education (2nd Edition) by Ronald Reed, Tony W. Johnson ISBN: 0801333164 Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 07 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.80 |
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Title: Existentialism in Education: What It Means by Van Cleve Morris ISBN: 0881334979 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Psychology Applied to Teaching, Tenth Edition by SNOWMAN ISBN: 0618192662 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $88.36 |
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