Beschreibung:
Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom takes its readers into the deep waters of investigating teaching not simply as a profession but as a precious "way of life." The author begins by investigating the nature of teaching as both an "active" and a "contemplative" endeavor and inquires into the resonance between the nature of teaching on the one hand and what has been said classically about genuine philosophizing on the other hand.
List of Figures - Acknowledgments - Introduction: A Note to Instructors and Student-Teachers About How to Interact With This Book - Journaling, Self-Knowledge, and Education - Plato's Meno and Education - Plato's Apology and Education - Isocrates-The Father of Modern Education - Francis Bacon and Education - Rene Descartes and Education - John Locke and Education - Rousseau's Educational Ideas in the Emile - John Dewey, Inquiry, and Progressive Education - Maria Montessori and Seeing the Child in Education - Jean Piaget, Constructivism, and Seeing the Child in Education - Jacques Maritain and Education - An Aporetic Ending? Assessment and the Pursuit of Wisdom in Education - Appendix A: Assessment Tools - Appendix B: Experiments for Philosophical Askesis - Index.