Schools in transition : linking past, present, and future in educational practice / edited by Pauli Siljander, Kimmo Kontio and Eetu Pikkarainen.
ISBN:
9789463008273
Title:
Schools in transition : linking past, present, and future in educational practice / edited by Pauli Siljander, Kimmo Kontio and Eetu Pikkarainen.
Author:
Siljander, Pauli, editor.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1. A MODERN IDEA OF THE SCHOOL; WHAT IS SCHOOL -- A SHORT HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION; OVERVIEW OF THE CONTENT OF THE BOOK; Functions of the School: Theoretical Issues; School, Learning and Teaching; School, Economics and Labor Markets; School and School Reform -- National Perspectives; School, Utopias and Future; REFERENCES; SECTION I: FUNCTIONS OF THE SCHOOL: Theoretical Issues; 2. A PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOL FOR OUR TIME: Thinking with Plato after Dewey; WHY PLATO IS A CONTEMPORARY WHO SPEAKS TO THE MEANING OF SCHOOL; THE SCHOOL AS A PLACE OF AND FOR THOUGHT.
AN EDUCATION IN THE EMBODIED ARTSCONCLUSION: SOCRATES GOES TO SCHOOL; REFERENCES; 3. AXEL HONNETH ON ROLE, FORM AND RESULTS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION REVISITED; INTRODUCTION; THE ROLE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION; THE FORM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION; THE RESULTS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION; CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; 4. WHAT ARE UNIVERSITIES FOR?: From the Community of the Selves to the Transformative Potential of Higher Education; SEARCHING FOR THE IDEA(L); THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITY, HUMBOLDT AND THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSITY AS BILDUNG; IS SEEKING THE IDEALS OF BILDUNG AND UNIVERSITY NOTHING BUT 'SPIRITUAL MISSION'?
PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES FOR UNIVERSITY IN THE LATE-MODERN PLURALITY, AND COMING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE SELVESREFERENCES; SECTION II: SCHOOL, LEARNING AND TEACHING; 5. SCHOOLS AND THE NEW LANGUAGE OF LEARNING: A Critical Perspective; INTRODUCTION; THE NEW THEORIES OF LEARNING AND THEIR IMPACT AND APPLICATIONS ON EDUCATION; THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION AND THE NEW LANGUAGE OF LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE NEW LANGUAGE OF LEARNING; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; 6. THE PARADOX OF BEING A TEACHER: Institutionalized Relevance and Organized Mistrust.
THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHERS AND THEIR DISTURBING FALLACIESPESTALOZZI AND SKINNER: THE URGENT SOCIAL NEED FOR EDUCATIONAL EFFECTS; GOD'S DEPUTIES, SUBSTITUTES, AND IMITATORS: MOTHERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND RESEARCHERS; THE INFINITE SMALL LEARNING STEPS AND THE INFALLIBLE PROGRESS; TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS; NOTE; REFERENCES; 7. SCHOOL LEARNING AS HUMAN GROWTH: Modal Dynamics of Learning; INTRODUCTION; SCHOOL AS BRIDGE TO A SECOND NATURE; HUMAN GROWTH AND LEARNING; MODAL DYNAMICS OF LEARNING AND ACTION; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; SECTION III: SCHOOL, ECONOMICS AND LABOR MARKETS.
8. THE STATE, MARKET AND EDUCATIONTHE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PUBLIC FUNDING OF EDUCATION; ABOUT THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; 9. PRODUCTIVITY, EFFECTIVENESS, EFFICIENCY BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION; PRELIMINARY REMARK; THE CONCEPT OF PRODUCTIVITY; Labour Productivity; Capital Productivity; Total Factor Productivity; Perspectives of Observation; Levels of Observation; OBJECTS OF OBSERVATION; Output Measures of Successful School Education; Inputs in and Productivity Indicators of Successful School Education.
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Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Rotterdam, The Netherlands :
Sense Publishers,
[2017]