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Education Educational Psychology

From Cognition to Being

Prolegomena for Teachers

by (author) Henry Davis McHenry

Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Feb 1999
Category
Educational Psychology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780776615967
    Publish Date
    Feb 1999
    List Price
    $14.99

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In this book, McHenry challenges the still-regnant paradigm of knowledge acquisition as the end and means of schooling, supplanting it with an inquiry into what knowledge is.  Tracing the development of the idea of knowledge from its roots in Descartes and Locke through the ontological turn in Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Buber,  he provides an alternative rationale and vocabulary for a practice of schooling that engages teachers with students in being-together-and-inventing.  Philosophically centered though accessibly written, with examples from the author’s personal experiences with his own child and his students, the book engages the reader in inquiry rather than argument, leaving her not with a list of tips and prescriptions, but with a capacity for encounter with the actual persons in her classroom.

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