1st Edition

Epistemology and the Predicates of Education Building Upon a Process Theory of Learning

By Thomas Peterson Copyright 2020
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Exploring the predicates of education from theoretical, practical and historical perspectives, this book revalorizes the central role of the humanities in the ethical and aesthetic formation of the individual. This book considers timely questions of process and epistemology in today’s academy. It examines the subject of learning as it arises in the individual, is defined by educators, and is... Read more

Introduction



1. Whitehead, Bateson and Readings and the Predicates of Education



2. Constructivist Pedagogy and Symbolism



3. Contemporary Approaches to a Pedagogy of Process



4. The Art of Language Instruction as Interdisciplinary Paradigm



5. Gaps, Faith and Analogical Thinking



6. Ethics, Virtues, Rights



7. Deep Stuctures, Narrative and the Humanistic Academy



Conclusion



References

Biography

Thomas E. Peterson is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia, USA