Mere Education - Mark A. Pike

Mere Education

C.S. Lewis as Teacher for our Time

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
194 Seiten
2013
Lutterworth Press (Verlag)
978-0-7188-9325-5 (ISBN)
35,70 inkl. MwSt
An exploration of C.S. Lewis's thinking and writing on education, and how Lewis's insights offer a challenge to modern educational theory and practice.
The word 'mere' is used in the title of this book in its Middle English sense as an adjective 'nothing less than, complete'. This book is about schooling for a fair and vibrant society; it is about an education of hope, education that completes a person. In 'The Magician's Nephew' (1955), the first in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, Digory and Polly are dragged back through time into a world that is "devoid of life and barren of vegetation". Such a world is not a safe place for children and young people. When C.S. Lewis wrote that the task of the modern educator is 'to irrigate deserts' he was making the point that it is teachers who 'inculcate just sentiments' (Lewis 1978/1943, p.13) and enable the moral sense of their students to flourish. Mark A. Pike supports C.S. Lewis' belief in the role of educators and has written 'Mere Education' to show how we might go about it so that 'the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose' (Isaiah 35:1).

Dr Mark A. Pike is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Leeds. He has published articles in many leading journals.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Mere Education

Part 1 The Hinge of the Wardrobe Door: Core Values, Character and Christianity
1. Character Education: Learning for Life
2. Christian Education: Liberating Faith, Hope and Love
3. Spiritual Education: Walking on the Beach - with a Map

Part 2: The Furniture of the House: Schooling Children
4. Liberal Education: Living Well in a Liberal Society
5. Sex Education: Self-Control and Sales Resistance
6. Biblical Education: the Basis of Liberty

Part 3: Professor Lewis: Cultural Interpreter for Educators
7. Cultural Education: Understanding the Foundations
8. Citizenship Education: Moulding Minds
9. Democratic Education: How to Avoid 'dumbing down'

Part 4: The Professor's House: Leading on School Ethos and Excellence in Teaching
10. Teacher Education: How to be an Excellent Teacher
11. Leadership Education: How to be an Excellent Leader
12. Future Education: a Prophecy

Notes
Bibliography
Scripture Index
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.9.2013
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 310 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10 0-7188-9325-5 / 0718893255
ISBN-13 978-0-7188-9325-5 / 9780718893255
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