How can we make children 'better'? Better learners, better human beings … The question is as old as the hills and intensified by modernity: global terror, bullying and violence in schools, not to mention youthful insolence to which we lack a collective response. Be good? scoffs the young millennial. What for?
Curricular reform, radical inclusion, scientific enhancement: the book opposes these fashionable solutions. With a word like 'better' as our focus of concern, it is argued that philosophy in its original sense – a devotion to the ideal of wisdom rather than policy imperatives – is urgently needed. How should we live? asked Aristotle, and his ideas still resonate: not by a rule book but by virtuous tendencies and habits. But his focus on the well-raised child as a candidate for moral education betrays a limited understanding of the possibilities of emotional transformation. How can we help children for whom the education of habits has been neglected or gone awry? For help with this question, Ruth Cigman turbans to post-romantic thinkers, literary and psychoanalytical as well as philosophical. These bring a vision of what she calls relations of cherishing, and the book's central claim is that we must cherish people wisely if we wish to guide them towards good lives.
How can we make children 'better'? Better learners, better human beings … The question is as old as the hills and intensified by modernity: global terror, bullying and violence in schools, not to mention youthful insolence to which we lack a collective response. Be good? scoffs the young millennial. What for?
Curricular reform, radical inclusion, scientific enhancement: the book opposes these fashionable solutions. With a word like 'better' as our focus of concern, it is argued that philosophy in its original sense – a devotion to the ideal of wisdom rather than policy imperatives – is urgently needed. How should we live? asked Aristotle, and his ideas still resonate: not by a rule book but by virtuous tendencies and habits. But his focus on the well-raised child as a candidate for moral education betrays a limited understanding of the possibilities of emotional transformation. How can we help children for whom the education of habits has been neglected or gone awry? For help with this question, Ruth Cigman turbans to post-romantic thinkers, literary and psychoanalytical as well as philosophical. These bring a vision of what she calls relations of cherishing, and the book's central claim is that we must cherish people wisely if we wish to guide them towards good lives.
Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning: Ethics, Education, Upbringing
224
Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning: Ethics, Education, Upbringing
224
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474278850 |
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| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 08/09/2018 |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.38(w) x 9.57(h) x 0.69(d) |