A Pedagogy of Becoming / / edited by Jon Mills.

• TeilnehmendeR: Mills, Jon,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series, ; 116
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 236 pages).

This book advocates a return to the spirit of the Greek notion of paideia, emphasizing a pedagogy of becoming. The authors offer a holistic approach to education that aspires toward the inclusion, promotion, and nurturance of virtue and valuation. Topics range from the purely conceptual to applied methodology. Several key issues and contemporary trends in education are addressed philosophically, including the values of wisdom, morality, compassion, empathy, interdependence, authenticity, and self-understanding.

Table of Contents

Introduction : Paideia reconsidered / Jon Mills -- Philosophical considerations. Can wisdom be taught? / David A. Jopling ; In search of moral teaching / Janusz A. Polanowski ; Education through compassion : cultivating our mystical vocation / Frank Gruba-McCallister -- Enactments and applied methodology. Abolishing educational welfare : redrawing the lines of interdependency through dialogue / George David Miller ; An unorthodox pedagogy : fostering empathy through provocation / Jon Mills ; The "good enough" teacher and the authentic student / Guy Allen ; Teaching through discussion / Jeffrey Tlumak ; The classroom experience as a laboratory for self-understanding / Marc Lubin ; Education in the twenty-first century / John Lachs and Shirley M. Lachs.