
Dwelling, Building, Thinking
A Post-Constructivist Perspective on Education, Learning, and Development
Wolff-Michael Roth(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 9. May 2018
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-90-04-37712-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, the author presents a major challenge to (social) constructivism, which has become an ideology that few dare to critique. Transgressing the boundaries of this ideology, the author develops an alternative epistemology that takes dwelling as the starting point and ground. Dwelling enables building and thinking ('constructing'). It is an epistemology in which there is a primacy of social relations, which are the first instantiations of the higher psychological functions ascribed to humans. Starkly contrasting constructivism, the author shows how the commonness of the senses and the existence of social relations lead to common sense, which is the foundation of everything rational and scientific. Common sense, which comes from and with dwelling, is the ground in which all education is rooted. Any attempt to eradicate it literally uproots and thus alienates students from the life and world with which they are so familiar.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
177 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-37712-7 (9789004377127)
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A Post-Constructivist Perspective on Education, Learning, and Development
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Wolff-Michael Roth, Ph.D. (1987), University of Southern Mississippi, is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, Canada. His transdisciplinary research focuses on knowing and learning across the entire lifespan.
Content
Preface
1 Toward Post-Constructivist Epistemology
2 Being is Dwelling
3 On Being Rooted
4 Cultivating Culture
5 Emergence of the Image
6 Becoming Aware
7 The Invisible Body
8 Disappearance of the Subject
9 The Subject*-in-the-Making
10 There is (a) Life after Constructivism
Notes
1 Toward Post-Constructivist Epistemology
2 Being is Dwelling
3 On Being Rooted
4 Cultivating Culture
5 Emergence of the Image
6 Becoming Aware
7 The Invisible Body
8 Disappearance of the Subject
9 The Subject*-in-the-Making
10 There is (a) Life after Constructivism
Notes