The Adventure of Education: Process Philosophers on Learning, Teaching, and Research. (Value Inquiry Book Series: Philosophy of Education)

This book on process-relational philosophy of education suggests that the notion of Adventure is foundational for the advancement of knowledge. Learning, teaching, and research are best conceived as rhythmic and relational processes, involving curiosity, imagination, valuation, creativity, and self-realization. Thus construed, contemporary educational practices can be revitalized from pedagogies of information retention and the current overemphasis on analytic precision. Introduction: The adventure of education / Adam C. Scarfe The missing link: Whitehead and the relation between the aesthetic and the analytical in education / Pete A. Y. Gunter Helical learning / George Allan Education as a process: Whitehead's The aims of education revisited / Richard Penaskovic The importance of big ideas or how to encourage active wisdom / Marcus Ford Educating the five-minded animal / Bernie Neville Steps to a process curriculum / Hillel A. Schiller The body as a companion in education: an interpretation of Whitehead's notion of the withness of the body / Jean-Marie Breuvart On Whitehead's thoughts concerning teaching, learning, and the way of liberal education / Jean-Pascal Alcantara Whitehead's prehending and Dewey's experimenting: speculative philosophy versus educational theory in twentieth century one-room schoolhouses / Kathleen Gershman The cosmological foundations of learning as valuing: a Whiteheadian perspective on designing university courses / Robert Regnier The problem of the overemphasis on precision in academic research: Whiteheadian solutions / Adam C. Scarfe. Edited By Adam C. Scarfe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.