Dwelling, building, thinking : a post-constructivist perspective on education, learning, and development / Wolff-Michael Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953- author.

Series:

Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education 127.

Transgressions: cultural studies & education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Knowledge, Theory of--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 198 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

In this book, the author presents a major challenge to (social) constructivism, which has become an ideology that few dare to critique. Transgressing the boundaries of this ideology, the author develops an alternative epistemology that takes dwelling as the starting point and ground. Dwelling enables building and thinking (‘constructing’). It is an epistemology in which there is a primacy of social relations, which are the first instantiations of the higher psychological functions ascribed to humans. Starkly contrasting constructivism, the author shows how the commonness of the senses and the existence of social relations lead to common sense, which is the foundation of everything rational and scientific. Common sense, which comes from and with dwelling, is the ground in which all education is rooted. Any attempt to eradicate it literally uproots and thus alienates students from the life and world with which they are so familiar.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Preface

Toward Post-Constructivist Epistemology

Being is Dwelling

On Being Rooted

Cultivating Culture

Emergence of the Image

Becoming Aware

The Invisible Body

Disappearance of the Subject

The Subject-in-the-Making

There is (a) Life after Constructivism.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-37713-1

OCLC:

1040214896

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004377134 DOI