The adventure of education : process philosophers on learning, teaching, and research / / edited by Adam C. Scarfe.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; 204
• TeilnehmendeR: Scarfe, Adam Christian, 1972-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; v. 204.; Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of education.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book on process-relational philosophy of education suggests that the notion of Adventure is foundational for the advancement of knowledge. Learning, teaching, and research are best conceived as rhythmic and relational processes, involving curiosity, imagination, valuation, creativity, and self-...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• INTRODUCTION: THE ADVENTURE OF EDUCATION
• THE MISSING LINK: WHITEHEAD AND THE RELATION BETWEEN THE AESTHETIC AND THE ANALYTICAL IN EDUCATION / Pete A. Y. Gunter
• HELICAL LEARNING / George Allan
• EDUCATION AS A PROCESS: WHITEHEAD’S THE AIMS OF EDUCATION REVISITED / Richard Penaskovic
• THE IMPORTANCE OF BIG IDEAS OR HOW TO ENCOURAGE ACTIVE WISDOM / Marcus Ford
• EDUCATING THE FIVE-MINDED ANIMAL / Bernie Neville
• STEPS TO A PROCESS CURRICULUM / Hillel A. Schiller
• THE BODY AS A COMPANION IN EDUCATION: AN INTERPRETATION OF WHITEHEAD’S NOTION OF THE WITHNESS OF THE BODY / Jean-Marie Breuvart
• ON WHITEHEAD’S THOUGHTS CONCERNING TEACHING, LEARNING, AND THE WAY OF LIBERAL EDUCATION / Jean-Pascal Alcantara
• WHITEHEAD’S PREHENDING AND DEWEY’S EXPERIMENTING: SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY VERSUS EDUCATIONAL THEORY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES / Kathleen Gershman
• THE COSMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING AS VALUING: A WHITEHEADIAN PERSPECTIVE ON DESIGNING UNIVERSITY COURSES / Robert Regnier
• THE PROBLEM OF THE OVEREMPHASIS ON PRECISION IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH: WHITEHEADIAN SOLUTIONS / Adam C. Scarfe
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX / Adam C. Scarfe
• VIBS / Adam C. Scarfe.