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Retuning Education: Bildung and Exemplarity Beyond the Logic of Progress

196 Pages

by Routledge

196 Pages

by Routledge

196 Pages

by Routledge

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This book responds to the need for new ways of defining the aims and forms of education, in an age that has seen the ideals of progress and growth lead the planet and its inhabitants to the brink of extinction. Arguing that contemporary ideas of performance and accountability counter "the heart" of education, the book calls for a retuning of education that encourages the younger generation to... Read more

· Part 1: Why do we educate?

· Chapter 1: What do we (the old) want with and for the young?

· Chapter 2: Who should we become? The question of Bildung

· Chapter 3: Educational commoning

· Chapter 4: Student de-centred education: From self-insight to self-outsight

· Chapter 5: Alienation

Part 2: How do we educate?

· Chapter 6: Pearl diving: Towards a pedagogy of exemplarity

· Chapter 7: Pedagogical exemplarity

· Chapter 8: Judgement and examples

· Chapter 9: Didactical exemplarity

· Chapter 10: For lack of better words