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Bridges to Autonomy - Paradoxes in Teaching and Learning (Paperback)
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Bridges to Autonomy - Paradoxes in Teaching and Learning (Paperback)
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Teaching is a paradoxical activity, beset by ironies and apparent
contradictions: Educated people are autonomous and self-directed,
but schooling generally involves expert direction of compliant and
dependent students. Empathy, imagination, and creativity
characterize fully actualized people, but these qualities seem at
odds with mastering received bodies of material. Societies value
testable facts and abilities, but these are of little use, and can
even be dangerous, without maturity of character. Educators rightly
value teaching for maturity, but risk in the process indoctrination
or natural resistance. Modeling forthrightness would seem
indispensable to character development, but some of the most
effective teachers induce learning by good-natured trickery. These
are genuine paradoxes, in that even when we work out credible
resolutions for them they tend not stay solved. Their tensions
continue to bedevil us in each new class, with each new student,
and at each phase of learning. The insights and conclusions of this
conversation are neither inflexible doctrines nor a compendium of
abstract disputes unrelated to actual teaching practices. Rather,
the reader at once witnesses and participates in the philosophy of
education as a vital process, experiencing the kind of passionate
and imaginative conversations that good teachers often have, and
from which they learn to understand and engage the elusive art of
teaching.
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