7 Ergebnisse.

Can a sculpture be a river? Can contemporary art unite conflicting systems of belief? Do other species appreciate culture? And can public art revive communities and ecosystems? Cristina Iglesias' horizontal fountains, submerged rooms and tropical mazes bring together language, architecture and botany to create immersive spaces of contemplation. In this publication an international roster of curators, art critics, philosophers, architects and s...

Questions and questioning play a major role in both formal and informal educative processes. They are the means by which a child expresses the desire to understand the world outside, and they subsequently become the means by which a teacher assesses whether or not a child has satisfactorily assimilated something. The teacher can also use questions to direct and control the course of students' studies. The ability and desire to question might b...

Called 'The Roman Socrates, ' Musonius Rufus is a first-century Stoic philosopher who was famous for living and teaching the good life of virtue. This book describes his exemplary life, his ethical teachings, and the practical methods he used to educate people in the good life. Based on the ancient texts and modern scholarship, this book is the first comprehensive treatment of Musonius Rufus's life, teachings, and methods

In this book, leading figures describe group deliberation in education and other practical enterprises of society. This volume encompasses a spectrum of angles on deliberation and views theory, research, and practice of deliberation in education and society. It displays actual cases as well as abstract concepts, and precepts along with principles. The book also illustrates a variety of methods and settings, and identifies the major topics and ...

This volume develops an encompassing view of questioning and discussion in a classroom setting, and enhances the understanding and practice of multidisciplinary research by including perspectives from various fields. Scholars join together in analysis over the same set of transcribed discussions from the perspectives of logic, sociolinguistics, philosophy, various brances of psychology, and various traditions within education research. The anl...

Keine Beschreibung.

The 'personal' approach to teaching recounts one teacher's success in leaving behind traditional teaching and engaging the person of both the teacher and the student in the educative process.