Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education : Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and their Legacies.

Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education : Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and their Legacies.

Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we understand and interpret the world and how our...

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Main Author: Nixon, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub., 2012.
Subjects:
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975.
Berger, John.
Said, Edward W.
Nussbaum, Martha C. > (Martha Craven), > 1947-
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975
Berger, John
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Education, Higher > Philosophy.
Teachers' classroom resources & material.
Colleges of higher education.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Education, Higher > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One; Origins; 1 The Place of Pedagogy; The Cost of Expansion; Markets and Consumers; A Privatized Public; The Pedagogicized University; 2 Public Education; Educating 'The Masses'; Technology and 'Progress'; Culture and 'Growth'; Remaking 'The Public'; 3 The Interpretive Tradition; The Interpreted World; The Fusion of Horizons; The Power of Prejudice; Beyond Method; Part Two; The Legacy; 4 Becoming Thoughtful: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975); Arendt and Heidegger; 'No Pillars and Props'
  • The Eichmann Trial'Representative Thinking'; Thought and Action; 5 Becoming Attentive: John Berger (b.1926); Shifting Perspectives; An Imagined Conversation; Escaping the Nominal; Brief as Photos; 6 Becoming Worldly: Edward W. Said (1935-2003); In the World; The World in the Book; The Book in the World; For the World; 7 Becoming Responsive: Martha C. Nussbaum (b.1947); Goodness and Vulnerability; Responsiveness and Relationality; The 'Central Capabilities'; The Capabilities and Education; Part Three; Futures; 8 Open Futures; Prologue: A University Under Occupation; A Futures Curriculum.
  • Becoming OurselvesPedagogy as Quest; 9 Educated Publics; Prologue: Cross-border Transformations; De-professionalizing Ethics; Institutional Ethos; The Primacy of Practice; Pedagogy and Connectivity; 10 Pedagogic Spaces; Prologue: The Story of Xiang Li; Pedagogy as a Practice; Dissensus and Relationality; Relationality and Openness; References; Index.

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