A Philosopher's Perspective on the UK’s Higher Education

Teaching in the Iron Cage

Brendan Larvor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-7383-3 (ISBN)

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In this collection of research articles and reflective essays, Brendan Larvor argues that the principal task of teachers in higher education is to find ways to pursue the creative, romantic and liberal goals of the ideal university, when real universities are rationalised bureaucracies, according to the thoughts of Max Weber. Larvor reflects on the differences between teaching philosophy undergraduates, expert practitioners and prisoners. He insists on the importance of the affective dimension of learning and the unpredictability of the encounter between students and curricula. This book will interest anyone concerned about the current condition of higher education, and anyone interested in the relationship between the intimate, human activity of teaching and the bureaucracies in which it takes place.

Brendan Larvor is a reader in philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is the author of Lakatos, an Introduction (1998) and over fifty academic papers on the philosophy of mathematics, education and pedagogy, and other topics. He is the editor of Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014 (2016). He has served on the executive committee of the British Philosophical Association and the directive committee of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (USA). He is currently a senior fellow of The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences Chair: Diversity of Mathematical Research Cultures and Practices (Hamburg) and a member of the editorial board of Annals of Mathematics and Philosophy.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-5275-7383-4 / 1527573834
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-7383-3 / 9781527573833
Zustand	Neuware