Confluences : intercultural journeying in research and teaching / David Geoffrey Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, David Geoffrey, author.

Series:

Current perspectives on confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and education.

Current perspectives on Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Education and globalization.

East and West.

Philosophy, Asian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, 2020.

Summary:

In this book, Canadian scholar David Geoffrey Smith reflects on over thirty years of research and teaching in the human sciences, including education. Written between 1986 and 2018, the essays are organized around four themes: Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences; The Poststructuralist Turn; Globalization and Its Discontents; East/West Encounters and the Search for Wisdom. As a historical guide through the defining discourses in the human sciences, this volume could well serve as an introductory text for graduate students in education and other cognate disciplines like nursing, recreation and cultural studies. The writing can be described as a form of meditative praxis, while the emphasis on interculturality addresses issues in literacy, pedagogy, politics, critical thinking, teacher education, and cultural healing from a geopolitical perspective, drawing on insights from both Western and Eastern traditions and the author's personal experience of being born in China and raised in Central Africa (Northern Rhodesia/Zambia).

Contents:

Introduction

Section i. Orientations

Chapter 1. Journeying: A meditation on leaving home and coming home

Chapter 2. Not just as we please: A meditation on what it means to make a difference

Chapter 3. A meditation on an answer from ku shan

Section ii. Hermeneutics and the human sciences

Chapter 4. The mission of the hermeneutic scholar

Chapter 5. Hermeneutic inquiry

Chapter 6. The hermeneutic imagination and the pedagogic text

Chapter 7. Experimental hermeneutics: Interpreting educational reality

Chapter 8. Experience and interpretation in global times: The case of special education

Chapter 9. Postcolonialism and globalization: Thoughts toward a new hermeneutic pedagogy

Chapter 10. On being critical about language: The critical theory tradition and implications for language education

Section iii. The poststructuralist turn

Chapter 11. Brighter than a thousand suns: Facing pedagogy in the nuclear shadow

Chapter 12. Teacher education as a form of discourse

Chapter 13. On discursivity and neurosis: Conditions of possibility of (west) discourse with others

Chapter 14. Modernism, hyperliteracy, and the colonization of the word

Chapter 15. Modernism, postmodernism, and the future of pedagogy

Section iv. Globalization and its disContents

Chapter 16. The geography of theory and the pedagogy of place

Chapter 17. Teacher education and global culture

Chapter 18. The problem for the south is the north (but the problem for the north is the north)

Chapter 19. The specific challenges of globalization for teaching and vice versa

Chapter 20. A few modest prophecies: The WTO, globalization, and the future of reason

Chapter 21. From leo strauss to collapse theory: Considering the neoconservative attack on modernity and the work of education

Chapter 22. Not rocket science: On the limits of conservative pedagogy

Chapter 23. Engaging peter mclaren and the new marxism in education: An essay review of mclaren's rage+hope

Chapter 24. The deep politics of war and the curriculum of disillusion

Section v. East/west encounters and the search for wisdom

Chapter 25. Identity, self, and other in the conduct of pedagogical action: An east/ west inquiry

Chapter 26. "...the farthest west is but the farthest east": The long way of oriental/occidental engagement

Chapter 27. Wisdom responses to globalization: The pedagogic context

Chapter 28. Can wisdom trump the market as a basis for education?

Chapter 29. On studying confucius: Pitfalls and possibilities in global times

Chapter 30. Spiritual cardiology and the heart of wisdom

Section vi. Special words for teachers and teacher educators

Chapter 31. Children and the gods of war

Chapter 32. Fake news and other conundrums in reading the world at empire's end. References. About the authors.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

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ISBN:

1-64113-826-2

OCLC:

1150174608