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Complexity in Education : From Horror to Passion / edited by Cok Bakker and Nicolina Montesano Montessori

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Rotterdam ; Boston ; Taipei : Sense Publishers, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
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1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : illustrations
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Bakker, Cok and Montessori, Nicolina Montesano
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Contents
Preface -- PART I: BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION -- Introduction / Cok Bakker and Nicolina Montesano Montessori -- 1. Professionalization and the Quest How to Deal with Complexity / Cok Bakker -- 2. Developing a Better Understanding of Complexity in Education: An Introduction to the Various Research Projects / Cok Bakker and Nicolina Montesano Montessori., PART II: THE CORE CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK -- 3. Teaching for Love of the World: Hannah Arendt on the Complexities of the Educational Praxis / Anouk Zuurmond -- 4. Virtuosic Citizenship / Gertie Blaauwendraad -- 5. Shaping Phronesis: No Polish without Friction / Rob Gertsen -- 6. Passio Complexitatis: A Dialogical Approach to Complexity / Edwin van der Zande -- 7. Co-Teaching: A Means to Support Teachers in Complex Situations? / Dian Fluijt -- 8. How Religious Education Teachers Use Classroom Relationships to Advance the Worldview Identity Development of Their Students / Jeannette Den Ouden and Fred Janssen -- 9. How Primary School Teachers Learn to Act Wisely, Boldly, and Inventively: The Complex Transition from Tradition Oriented to Pupil Oriented Worldview Education / Bas van den Berg -- 10. Educating Practically Wise Teachers: Personal Formation of Students in an Innovative Teacher Training Program / Ton Zondervan -- 11. Innovative Education and Complexity / Dick de Haan., and PART III: FINAL REFLECTIONS -- 12. Why Complexity Matters / Nicolina Montesano Montessori -- 13. Final Reflections and Conclusions / Nicolina Montesano Montessori and Cok Bakker.
Summary
"This volume, the result of four years of work performed by the combined research groups of Utrecht University (Faculty of Humanities) and the HU Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (Faculty of Education), focuses on the central theme of 'Normative Professionalization'. Drawing on a wide variety of scholars including Hannah Arendt, Gert Biesta, Harry Kunneman, Donald Schön and Chris Argyris, and engaging with professionalism, ethics, virtue and morality, this book builds the argument that learning to deal with complexity supports not only education but the personal development of teachers and the improvement of society and democracy as well. This volume presents research on a broad range of topics such as worldview education, co-teaching, moral authorship, traditional-reform perspectives on education, the discourse on citizenship, teacher education, and the question how to link religion and education. The research chapters explain the theoretical lenses and methodological approaches which have been employed to get a grip on complexity. The results have been interpreted in light of the concepts of horror complexitatis, amor complexitatis and dolor complexitatis. Guided by detailed research accounts of worldview descriptions provided by students and teachers, this framework has been enriched with the notion of a passio complexitatis. In the concluding chapters, the book advocates for an improved balance between the normative and instrumental professionalization of teachers, in order to create space for the improvement of pedagogical relations and processes and to reintroduce the moral dimensions of education. The claim throughout this book is that allowing for complexity in education -- even going so far as to embrace it -- is vital for the improvement of education, and a prerequisite for more authentic relationships (on the micro level) and the maintenance of a well-functioning democracy and a balanced society (on the macro level). This book is of interest to researchers and educators who are interested in normative professionalization, to qualitative and practice oriented researchers, to teachers and managers in primary, secondary and professional education, and to the wider public which is concerned with the significance of education for the development of a stable and sustainable society."
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9789463007641 (electronic bk.)
9463007644 (electronic bk.)
9789463007627 (paperback)
9463007628 (paperback)
9789463007634 (hardback)
9463007636 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references.
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