1st Edition

Indirect Education Exploring Indirectness in Teaching and Research

By Herner Saeverot Copyright 2022
140 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Indirect Education discusses direct and indirect pedagogies and the complexities of these concepts within the field of education practice and research. It addresses the question of when it is most beneficial to be indirect with regard to teaching and educational research. The book offers an original approach to education in how it reasserts our right to a sense of ownership and agency in... Read more

List of illustrations

About the author

Acknowledgements

Introduction Expanding the forms of education

Chapter 1 Justification. Education is indirect by nature—so what’s the problem?

Chapter 2 Teaching. Four forms of teaching. Excerpts from observations at a secondary school

Chapter 3 Communication. Janus-faced forms of indirect communication. Teacher interview and thought experiments

Chapter 4 Ethics. Where is the boundary between the ethical and the unethical regarding teachers’ indirect actions? A case study

Chapter 5 Time. How may ‘genuine time’ be an integral element in student’s existence? A case study

Chapter 6 Education research. The direct and indirect paths of education research

Chapter 7 The educational researcher. Ironic indirection and the 'I' in education research

Afterword The wisdom of teachers. A conversation with three teachers

Index

Biography

Herner Saeverot is Professor of Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, and Professor II at NLA University College in Oslo, Norway.