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This title offers a coherent account of St Augustine's educational
thought, including coverage of the reception and influence of his
work and its relevance today. St Augustine is indisputably a major
thinker in education. Ryan Topping's volume offers the most
coherent account of St Augustine's educational thought. This work
is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of St
Augustine's work; the reception and influence of St Augustine's
work; and, the relevance of the work today. This title comes from a
major international reference series providing comprehensive
accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety
of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious
and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource
for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas,
Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant,
Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato,
Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
No other living tradition has been thinking about thinking longer
than the Catholic Church. With carefully selected readings from
classical, patristic, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources,
Renewing the Mind proposes the Catholic tradition as the noblest
and best hope for a recovery of humane learning in our time. Edited
by theologian and philosopher Ryan N.S. Topping, this anthology
draws from a range of classical and contemporary philosophers -
from Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, Newman to
Chesterton to Benedict XVI - to reconstruct and illustrate the
enduring vitality of the Catholic tradition of thinking about
thinking. Parts One, Two, and Three take up the essential
characteristics which define all learning activity: its purpose (or
end), its form and content (or curriculum), and its method (or
pedagogy). With an eye to meeting the challenge of the present
crisis in education, Part Four illustrates the contemporary renewal
of Catholic education. Included are selections that speak not only
to liberal or general education but to a variety of contexts in
which Catholics are called to study or teach: at home, at school,
in college, or in the seminary. Renewing the Mind includes an
introductory essay on the history and renewal of Catholic
education, followed by 38 selections each with an introduction,
biography, and study questions; adorning the text throughout are
illustrations from the National Gallery of Art. Educators of
children and college students will find this an essential guide to
the best of what has been said about what it means to be conformed
to the mind of Christ.
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St Augustine (Paperback)
Ryan N S Topping; Series edited by Richard Bailey
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After setting Augustine’s thought firmly within the context of
his life and times, Ryan Topping examines in turn the causes of
education (the purposes, pedagogy, curriculum, and limits of
learning) as Augustine understood them. Augustine’s towering
influence over Medieval and Renaissance theorists – from Hugh of
St Victor, to Aquinas, to Erasmus – is traced. The book concludes
by drawing Augustine into dialogue with contemporary philosophers,
exploring the influence of his meditations on higher education and
suggesting how his ideas can reinvigorate for our generation the
project of liberal learning.
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