Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education: Theory and Application - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1904303579 ISBN 13 : 9781904303572

Editeur : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Alfred North Whitehead s process philosophy is one of the most creative and promising approaches developed in the 20th century. Being a scholar who for most of his professional life worked in the fields of logic, mathematics, and physics it was one of Whitehead s major intentions to exemplarily demonstrate the possibility of the creative interplay between metaphysics and other disciplines such as aestethics, ethics, theology and especially the single sciences. One scientific field which he never lost interest in during his whole life was education, a key domain for prospering societies. In this book a selection of 15 papers explores Whitehead s educational ideas which are based on his radical process approach. Following the Introduction which presents Whitehead s criticism of traditional education and the false psychology which it is based on, the book is divided into two major parts. The first part deals with Whitehead s philosophically inspired alternative theoretical framework for learning and education. Special focus is layed on the concept of the learning process which according to Whitehead is essentially cyclic in nature. In the second part it is shown how Whitehead s ideas can profitably be applied to different sub-domains within education: management education, college education and evalutation. The book shows that Whitehead s process approach offers a promising alternative to traditional education.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Oladosu Afis Ayinde (Ph.D) is a cultural critic. He bagged his doctorate in Modern Sudanese Literature and Culture in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2001. His papers have been published or accepted for publication in such international journals as Journal of Objective Studies (1998), Islamic Culture (2004), Journal of Historical Society of Pakistan (2004), Hawwa (2004 and 2005), Middle Eastern Studies (2006), International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (2006) Studies in the Humanities (Forthcoming),and in Encyclopedia of African Thought (Forthcoming). He is a member of Association of Professional English-Translators in Arab Universities in Jordan (APETAU). He is married with children.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge Scholars Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1904303579
• ISBN 13: 9781904303572
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 444