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Indirect pedagogy : some lessons in existential education / by Herner Saeverot

Author
Saeverot, Herner
Published
Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 104 pages).
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English.
Contents
The need for reconnecting with existentialism in education -- Time for existential education -- The pedagogic art of seduction -- Educative deceit -- Indirect teacher praise -- Indirect teacher praise -- Existential education and the question of 'God'.
Summary
While existential issues perhaps concern people the most, today's education is not as preoccupied with such issues. Instead, education is becoming more uniform and streamlined; more and more one-sidedly directed towards what is useful. The purpose of this book is to focus on education's existential dimension. Such a focus requires at least three things. Firstly, we need to justify why it is necessary to reconnect with existentialism in education. Secondly, we need to undergo an examination of the quality of existential education, so that we can have a basis as to what kind of educational interests teachers should have. Thirdly, we need to gain knowledge about how teachers may teach in light of existential matters. However, to teach in light of existence is highly paradoxical in that existence cannot be forced on someone, but is rather a subjective matter. Teaching which is non-ironical or too direct can thus be very problematic concerning existential issues. The reason being that there is no objective truth in terms of existence. There is only a matter of subjective or existential truth, which is only true for the single individual. Therefore, the book suggests that the approach teachers' take must be discrete and indirect so as to create room for students to take responsibility for their subjective truth. Such an indirect pedagogy is not a programme, but rather a form of existential education. The overall aim of the book is, by way of introducing and developing the concept of indirect pedagogy, to extend and reinvent the language of teaching.
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9789462091948 (electronic bk.)
9462091943 (electronic bk.)
130620254X
9781306202541
9789462091924
9789462091931
9462091927 (Trade Paper)
9789462091924 (Trade Paper)
9788462091948
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Includes bibliographical references.
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