Philosophy in Classroom Teaching: Bridging the Gap - Softcover

Jacobsen, David A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 002360123X ISBN 13: 9780023601231

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

It's an often-asked question: “How do I use educational philosophy in my classroom teaching?” This book is a comprehensive answer. To clearly establish the applicability of philosophy to classroom teaching, this book presents the basics of philosophy; examines all of the major educational philosophies—idealism, realism, pragmatism, existentialism, and post-modernism—and their main proponents; and provides readers with a thorough knowledge of each philosophy's fundamental discourse around education. To this theoretical framework are then added real scenarios from real classrooms that demonstrate just how these erudite explorations translate into actual, in-front-of-the-children teaching. Discussion of life, times, and views of several philosophers—Pestalozzi, Whitehead, Russell, Apple, Giroux; and the feminists Wollstonecraft, Addams, Martin, and Hooks—introduce learners to a wide range of philosophies and philosophers including challenging a

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This is the first book devoted to clearly establishing the practical applicability of philosophy in classroom teaching. This book focuses on the practical by introducing readers to major philosophers and their methods, then using real scenarios to demonstrate how the methods apply in the real classrooms of today. Key philosophical concepts are covered to provide a practical, working knowledge of the study of truth and epistemology and how they apply to the major philosop hies of idealism, realism, pragmatism, existentialism, and post-modernism. Current and future classroom teachers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 002360123X
• ISBN 13: 9780023601231
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284