Education, modernity, and fractured meaning : toward a process theory of teaching and learning / Donald W. Oliver with the assistance of Kathleen Waldron Gershman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliver, Donald W.

Contributor:

Gershman, Kathleen Waldron, 1943-

Series:

SUNY series in philosophy of education.

SUNY series in philosophy.

SUNY series in philosophy

SUNY series in the philosophy of education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Process philosophy.

Curriculum planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1989.

Summary:

An indictment of the ideology of modernity, which has resulted in our leading incoherent and fragmented lives, Oliver and Gershman's book explores the profound paradigmatic differences that exist among the world's people and describes a rich theory of knowing and being, commonly called "process philosophy." The promise of process philosophy is in its potential to allow us to participate more fully in the flow of all of time and nature. But what does it mean for a teacher and student in the learning situation to have a process point of view? The authors also discuss many of the various implications in regard to language, space, power relationships, and time as they place process philosophy in the educational context.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Part One: Modernity

Introduction and Overview

1. Prologue and Introduction

2. Modernity, Fragmentation, and Cultural Balance

Part Two: Cosmology

3. Categories of the Whole

4. Cosmology

5. Cosmology as Curriculum

Part Three: Process Cosmology

6. From Scientific Modernity Toward a Process Universe

7. Whitehead's Process Cosmology

8. The Moral Basis of Process Education: Intimacy, Intensity, and Balance

Part Four: Process and Education

9. Teaching and Learning within the Occasion: Notes on Process Education

10. The Current Context of Process Education

Notes

Chapter One: Prologue and Introduction

Chapter Two: Modernity, Fragmentation, and Cultural Balance

Chapter Three: Categories of the Whole

Chapter Four: Cosmology

Chapter Five: Cosmology as Curriculum

Chapter Six: From Scientific Modernity Toward a Process Universe

Chapter Seven: Whitehead's Process Cosmology

Chapter Eight: The Moral Basis of Process Education: Intimacy, Intensity, and Balance

Chapter Nine: Teaching and Learning Within the Occasion: Notes on Process Education

Chapter Ten: The Current Context of Process Education

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-1500-1

0-585-06932-8

OCLC:

923398054