Problematizing the profession of teaching from an existential perspective

"Teachers not only serve as caretakers for the students in their classroom but also serve as stewards for society's next generation. In this way, teachers are charged with responsibility for the present and the future of their world. Shouldering this responsibility is no less than an exist...

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Other Authors Zimmerman, Aaron Samuel, 1982- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP/ Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2022]
SeriesStudies in the philosophy of education.
Subjects
Teaching > Philosophy.
Existentialism.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy > Movements > Existentialism.
Teacher training.
Phenomenology and Existentialism.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806602872
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-946-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xxiii, 208 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Considering teaching and teacher development from an existential perspective: An Introduction / Aaron S. Zimmerman
  • Section I. Existentialism and curriculum and instruction
  • Chapter 1. Possibility and rebellion in sartre and camus: Existential possibilities for education / James M. Magrini and Elias Schwieler
  • Chapter 2. Learning objectives reconsidered in light of existential-phenomenology and mindfulness / Glen L. Sherman
  • Chapter 3. A precious darkness: Utilizing existential loneliness to achieve culturally relative self-actualization in the classroom / Christopher Kazanjian and Sandra Kazanjian
  • Section II. Existentialism and assessment
  • Chapter 4. Under observation: Student anxiety and the phenomenology of remote testing environments / Tyler Loveless
  • Chapter 5. Assessments of ambiguity / Steven J. Fleet
  • Section III. Existentialism and teacher development
  • Chapter 6. Kierkegaard and the power of existential doubt in teaching: Transformation of self and profession / Dan Riordan, Paul Michalec, and Kate Newburgh
  • Chapter 7. Rational communication in university education: A jaspersian theory / Daniel Adsett
  • Chapter 8. Foundations of education: Absurdity and ambiguity / Stephanie Schneider
  • Section IV. The teaching of existentialism
  • Chapter 9. Agency precedes essence: Existentialism, ecology, and the new materialisms / Daniel O'Dea Bradley
  • Chapter 10. Teaching is Œ other people: Existential reflections on coteaching phenomenology with undergraduate students / Lauren Manton, Brigid Flaherty, Cecelia Little, and Peter Costello
  • About the authors.

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