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Book Synopsis Cultivating the Human Faculties by : Susan Bennett
Download or read book Cultivating the Human Faculties written by Susan Bennett and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a series of essays on different aspects of Irish painter James Barry's monumental cycle of paintings 'The Progress of Human Knowledge', in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts. Barry's work is debated in the context of wider issues such as nationalism and improvement and publicity and patronage.
Book Synopsis Cultivating Perception through Artworks by : Helen A. Fielding
Download or read book Cultivating Perception through Artworks written by Helen A. Fielding and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the ethical, political and cultural consequences of forgetting how to trust our senses? How can artworks help us see, sense, think, and interact in ways that are outside of the systems of convention and order that frame so much of our lives? In Cultivating Perception through Artworks, Helen Fielding challenges us to think alongside and according to artworks, cultivating a perception of what is really there and being expressed by them. Drawing from and expanding on the work of philosophers such as Luce Irigaray and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Fielding urges us to trust our senses and engage relationally with works of art in the here and now rather than distancing and systematizing them as aesthetic objects. Cultivating Perception through Artworks examines examples as diverse as a Rembrandt painting, M. NourbeSe Philip's poetry, and Louise Bourgeois' public sculpture, to demonstrate how artworks enact ethics, politics, or culture. By engaging with different art forms and discovering the unique way that each opens us to the world in a new and unexpected ways, Fielding reveals the importance of our moral, political, and cultural lives.
Book Synopsis Cultivating the Spirit by : Alexander W. Astin
Download or read book Cultivating the Spirit written by Alexander W. Astin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivating the Spirit THIS GROUNDBREAKING WORK IS BASED on a five-year study of how students change during the college years and the role college plays in facilitating the development of their spiritual qualities. Students, the authors argue, grapple with the big questions in life: Who am I? What are my values? Do I have a mission in life? Why am I in college? What kind of person do I want to be? What sort of world do I want to help to create? Their answers to these questions help determine their academic and career choices and are tied to the development of personal qualities such as empathy, caring, and social responsibility. The study finds that, while students' religious engagement declines during college, at the same time they become substantially more caring, tolerant, connected with others, and actively egaged in a spiritual quest. Spiritual growth also enhances academic performance, leadership development, and satisfaction with college. The study provides strong evidence pointing to specific experiences during college that can contribute to students' spiritual growth. The need for spiritual development in college is apparent. Two-thirds of the students in the study express a strong interest in spiritual matters, well over half report that their professors never encourage discussions of religious or spiritual matters, and about the same proportion report that professors never provide opportunities to discuss the purpose and meaning of life. Cultivating the Spirit aims to raise the awareness of academic administrators, faculty, and the public at large to the vital role that spirituality plays in student learning and development. Throughout the book, the authors identify strategies for enhancing students' development and encourage the academy to give greater priority to the spiritual aspects of students' educational and personal development.
Book Synopsis Pestalozzi's Educational Writings by : Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Download or read book Pestalozzi's Educational Writings written by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mill: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Sujith Kumar
Download or read book Mill: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Sujith Kumar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student's guide to the life and thought of John Stuart Mill, one of the most widely read and studied thinkers in political philosophy.
Download or read book Cultivating Music written by David Gramit and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-01-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German and Austrian music of the late eighteenth and the niniteenth centuries stands at the heart of the Western musical canon. Examination of how the music became an important part of middle-class identity and how the concert became a privileged site of cultural activity.
Book Synopsis Dystopia & Education by : Jessica A. Heybach
Download or read book Dystopia & Education written by Jessica A. Heybach and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an as-of-yet unexplored critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory, praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy and practices that have come to demarcate the era of NCLB and RTT. The authors in this collection employ dystopian themes found in literature, film, visual art, and video games as the lens for that critical inquiry. As such Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy is an essential contribution to the philosophical/critical tradition in educational scholarship. It is especially valuable because the inquiry undertaken is from a new perspective—one that will extend the critical tradition into a yet unexplored arena. Given the educational climate established by NCLB and RTT, this collection is especially important to the ongoing critical analysis of such policy mandates. There is also a significantly important timeliness to this book given NCLB’s utopian expectation of universal academic proficiency among American schoolchildren by the year 2014: as educators race to achieve such a noble yet naïve goal, this collection of essays examines the educational environment that has been enacted to achieve such ends, and describes our current state as a utopia-gone wrong.
Book Synopsis Cultivating Madrid by : Daniel Frost
Download or read book Cultivating Madrid written by Daniel Frost and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary in approach, 'Cultivating Madrid' argues that gardens and garden imagery trouble the distinction not only between nature and artifice, but also between reality and representation in general, and are thus crucial to understanding realism and the process of modernisation in Spain.
Book Synopsis Educational Writings by : Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Download or read book Educational Writings written by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Stuart Mill and the Ethic of Human Growth by : D.A. Habibi
Download or read book John Stuart Mill and the Ethic of Human Growth written by D.A. Habibi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this well-researched, comprehensive study of J.S. Mill, Professor Habibi argues that the persistent, dominant theme of Mill's life and work was his passionate belief in human improvement and progress. Several Mill scholars recognize this; however, numerous writers overlook his 'growth ethic', and this has led to misunderstandings about his value system. This study defines and establishes the importance of Mill's growth ethic and clears up misinterpretations surrounding his notions of higher and lower pleasures, positive and negative freedom, the status of children, the legitimacy of authority, and support for British colonialism. Drawing from the entire corpus of Mill's writings, as well as the extensive secondary literature, Habibi has written the most focused, sustained analysis of Mill's grand, leading principle. This book will be useful to college students in philosophy and intellectual history as well as specialists in these fields.
Book Synopsis God, Us and the Universe by : Nicholas P. Ginex
Download or read book God, Us and the Universe written by Nicholas P. Ginex and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Overview of God, Us and the Universe This book provides articles posted by this author on the Internet forum, www.gather.com. Included are fi fty articles that have been stimulated by the historical novel, Future of God Amen. They have been written to add further insights and supporting arguments of many assertions and conclusions presented in the novel. The gather member comments and author replies will illuminate for the reader many points of view, which may give greater scope to previous ideas about God, the soul, and what we have mentally conceived. Future of God Amen, written for people who desire to learn how mankind conceived one-universal God, serves as the backbone for the articles presented herein. It reveals facts and findings surfaced by highly respected scholars and Egyptologists. A new and gifted writer of religious findings, below are praises written for Future of God Amen . They validate the author’s writing skills to surface knowledge of a religious past that deserves to be known by the modern world. ========================================================== ► Nicholas takes facts and figures from Christian, Judaic, and Islamic religions and takes them into a new level where scholars, and professors alike will be mind blown and use this superb work of literature.... for centuries to come. - Michael G. Stone, Poet and Author ► An eye opening revelation for those unfamiliar with the origins of their religious beliefs. A masterful, easy to read correlation of well documented and presented historical information. A superb addition to anyone’s library. - Canadian Author, Richard Regener ► Better written and more cohesive than many books on religion, Future of God Amen is scholarly and fl eshed out to the point of textbook meticulousness; but it blindsides you with new discoveries and conclusions. - Andrea Borja, Journalist and Author ► His position, that Judaism, Christianity and Islam all fi nd their origins in Egypt, is not a new one, nor without controversy, however, he supports his argument with references, maps and histories, which are quite compelling. His writing style is smooth and is easy reading for an inquiring mind........This book would be a valuable addition to the library of any Church, Synagogue or Masjid. Any student of history, civilization and religion would do well to make it required reading. - Artur Zorka, C.H.T., Astronomer and Author
Book Synopsis Becoming One With the World by : Kathleen Kesson
Download or read book Becoming One With the World written by Kathleen Kesson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming One With the World: A Guide to Neohumanist Education responds to an urgent need to reconceptualize the fundamentals of education in light of the many social, ecological, and political challenges facing humanity today. It answers the call for a new educational paradigm, one based on a far richer, more insightful understanding of human possibility, one that decenters human “exceptionalism” in favor of a new ecological consciousness, one that promotes harmony and cooperation between humans and non-human others, and one that cultivates wisdom. Neohumanist education strives for a harmonious balance between spiritual development and critical engagement with the world, in the belief that an awakened conscience translates into transcending differences and creating a sense of unity with all beings. The book is designed to enhance the spiritual and pedagogical knowledge and skill of teachers, parents, and school leaders who are seeking more holistic approaches to educating young people. Both richly theoretical and eminently practical, the book applies the primary commitments of Neohumanist education—cultivating love and kinship with humans and non-human others, freeing the mind from dogma and limitations, fostering a balanced approach between inquiry into the outer, objective world(s) and the inner, subjective world(s), and awakening the desire for social and environmental justice—to the full spectrum of traditional subject matter. It draws upon a wide range of new research and scholarship to illustrate an educational model capable of maximizing human potential and inspiring young people to create a future that is just, joyful, and sustainable. ENDORSEMENTS: "What a wonderful book! Packed into its pages are decades of experience as a meditator, yogi, parent, educator, and Neohumanist. This latter is the crux of this text, designed to lay out in clear accessible language the fundamentals of this rich and inspiring philosophy and to touch on ways it can find its way into the daily flow of the classroom and school. A philosophy worth its salt is one that actually makes a difference in the day to day lives of people. In Kathleen Kesson and her comprehensive book, we find just this: practical, pragmatic insights into a philosophy both new and ancient! It is a gift to educators and anyone committed to wholesome futures for children, society and of course, the planet." — Marcus Bussey, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia "Becoming One With the World is an extraordinary book. While its primary aims are explaining the philosophy of Neohumanism and detailing a Neohumanistic approach to education, it is simultaneously a comprehensive summary and synthesis of scholarly literature in the field of holistic education. Unifying knowledge and methods from many curricula areas, including spirituality, ecology, aesthetics, literacy, cultural diversity and ethics, it offers a clear orientation to a way of educating young people that seems key to human surviving and thriving." — Aostre Johnson, Saint Michael’s College in Vermont
Book Synopsis Cultivating Humanity by : Martha C. Nussbaum
Download or read book Cultivating Humanity written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” is rooted in Seneca’s ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes tradition critically and who respects the ability to reason wherever it is found—in rich or poor, native or foreigner, female or male. Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, Nussbaum establishes three core values of liberal education: critical self-examination, the ideal of the world citizen, and the development of the narrative imagination. Then, taking us into classrooms and campuses across the nation, including prominent research universities, small independent colleges, and religious institutions, she shows how these values are (and in some instances are not) being embodied in particular courses. She defends such burgeoning subject areas as gender, minority, and gay studies against charges of moral relativism and low standards, and underscores their dynamic and fundamental contribution to critical reasoning and world citizenship. For Nussbaum, liberal education is alive and well on American campuses in the late twentieth century. It is not only viable, promising, and constructive, but it is essential to a democratic society. Taking up the challenge of conservative critics of academe, she argues persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education today.
Book Synopsis The Queerness of Childhood by : Anna Fishzon
Download or read book The Queerness of Childhood written by Anna Fishzon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child. Its intention is not only to interrogate the discursive work performed on, and by, the child in these fields, but also to provide a stage for examining how psychoanalysis and queer theory themselves interact, with the understanding that the meeting of these discourses is most generative around the queer time and sexualities of childhood. From the theoretical perspectives of queer theory, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and gender studies, the chapters explore cultural, aesthetic, and historical forms and phenomena that are aimed at, or are about, children, and that give expression to and make room for the queerness of childhood.
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Download or read book The Teacher, and Western Educational Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Teacher and Western Educational Magazine by : John H. Tice
Download or read book The Teacher and Western Educational Magazine written by John H. Tice and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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