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Education and Well-Being
Matthew D. Dewar
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Description for Education and Well-Being
Hardback. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 314.
This book explores how contemporary educational research and curriculum occlude the vital and enduring relationship between education and well-being. Beginning with the consequences of the reductive tendencies of educational research and moving through the consequences of the technical and instrumental tendencies of curriculum, this book challenges how contemporary education as a whole reduces human beings to “things” and funnels them according to predetermined knowledge forms representative of the dominant socioeconomic ideology. Through a philosophical exploration of original conceptions of education and well-being, this book attempts to recover an understanding of education that embodies how we learn to uncover and relate ... Read more
This book explores how contemporary educational research and curriculum occlude the vital and enduring relationship between education and well-being. Beginning with the consequences of the reductive tendencies of educational research and moving through the consequences of the technical and instrumental tendencies of curriculum, this book challenges how contemporary education as a whole reduces human beings to “things” and funnels them according to predetermined knowledge forms representative of the dominant socioeconomic ideology. Through a philosophical exploration of original conceptions of education and well-being, this book attempts to recover an understanding of education that embodies how we learn to uncover and relate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
Number of Pages
116
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137602756
SKU
V9781137602756
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About Matthew D. Dewar
Matthew D. Dewar earned his MEd in Curriculum and Instruction for Health and Wellness Education and a PhD in Curriculum Theory and Philosophy of Education from the National College of Education at National Louis University, USA. Dewar has been featured on TEDx and Wisconsin Public Radio. He currently teaches at Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, IL, USA.
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