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What is Education?
Philip W. Jackson
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Description for What is Education?
Hardcover. Most contemporary approaches to education follow a strictly empirical track, aiming to discover pragmatic solutions for teachers and school administrators. This title offers a philosophical exploration of how we transmit knowledge in human society and how we think about accomplishing that vital task. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of "finding out just what education is." Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey's charge to heart and spent the next sixty years contemplating his words. The stimulating result of a lifetime of thinking about educating, "What Is Education?" is a profound philosophical exploration of how we transmit knowledge in human society and how we think about accomplishing that vital task. Most contemporary approaches to education follow a strictly empirical track, aiming to discover pragmatic ... Read more
One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of "finding out just what education is." Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey's charge to heart and spent the next sixty years contemplating his words. The stimulating result of a lifetime of thinking about educating, "What Is Education?" is a profound philosophical exploration of how we transmit knowledge in human society and how we think about accomplishing that vital task. Most contemporary approaches to education follow a strictly empirical track, aiming to discover pragmatic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226389387
SKU
V9780226389387
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About Philip W. Jackson
Philip W. Jackson is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education and Psychology and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Life in Classrooms, The Practice of Teaching, and John Dewey and the Philosopher's Task.
Reviews for What is Education?
"This is some of the very best educational-or philosophical-writing I have read. Bearing the hallmarks of a modern classic, What Is Education? is a remarkable book, sometimes personal, always scholarly, about the nature of reading and interpretation and about the aims of education as a truth-generating activity as well as a personal quest. Through his use of philosophy, pedagogy, and ... Read more