Author: JoBeth Allen
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807772305
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry of relevant social issues, such as immigration rights, religious tolerance, racial equality, countering the effects of poverty, and respect for people with disabilities. The book shows how a group of teachers worked together to develop a critical content framework using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Chapters highlight lively classroom and community action projects.
A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers
Author: JoBeth Allen
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807772305
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry of relevant social issues, such as immigration rights, religious tolerance, racial equality, countering the effects of poverty, and respect for people with disabilities. The book shows how a group of teachers worked together to develop a critical content framework using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Chapters highlight lively classroom and community action projects.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807772305
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry of relevant social issues, such as immigration rights, religious tolerance, racial equality, countering the effects of poverty, and respect for people with disabilities. The book shows how a group of teachers worked together to develop a critical content framework using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Chapters highlight lively classroom and community action projects.
A Critical Inquiry Into the Opinions and Practice of the Ancient Philosophers
Author: John Towne
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Examines ancient philosophy and the afterlife, and attempts to refute some theories on those topics put forth by other authors.
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Examines ancient philosophy and the afterlife, and attempts to refute some theories on those topics put forth by other authors.
A Critical Inquiry Into the Opinions and Practice of the Ancient Philosophers... With a Preface by the Author of the Divine Legation, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A critical inquiry into the opinions and practise of the ancient philosophers, concerning the nature of the Soul and a future state, and their method of teaching by the double doctrine. By J. Towne. In which are examin'd the notions of Mr. Jackson and Dr. Sykes concerning these matters. With a preface by the author of the Divine Legation W. Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Pages : 340
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Revolution of the Ordinary
Author: Toril Moi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646444X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy’s unique ability to lay bare the connections between words and the world, dispel the notion of literature as a monolithic concept, and teach readers how to learn from a literary text. Moi first introduces Wittgenstein’s vision of language and theory, which refuses to reduce language to a matter of naming or representation, considers theory’s desire for generality doomed to failure, and brings out the philosophical power of the particular case. Contrasting ordinary language philosophy with dominant strands of Saussurean and post-Saussurean thought, she highlights the former’s originality, critical power, and potential for creative use. Finally, she challenges the belief that good critics always read below the surface, proposing instead an innovative view of texts as expression and action, and of reading as an act of acknowledgment. Intervening in cutting-edge debates while bringing Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell to new readers, Revolution of the Ordinary will appeal beyond literary studies to anyone looking for a philosophically serious account of why words matter.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646444X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell—to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy’s unique ability to lay bare the connections between words and the world, dispel the notion of literature as a monolithic concept, and teach readers how to learn from a literary text. Moi first introduces Wittgenstein’s vision of language and theory, which refuses to reduce language to a matter of naming or representation, considers theory’s desire for generality doomed to failure, and brings out the philosophical power of the particular case. Contrasting ordinary language philosophy with dominant strands of Saussurean and post-Saussurean thought, she highlights the former’s originality, critical power, and potential for creative use. Finally, she challenges the belief that good critics always read below the surface, proposing instead an innovative view of texts as expression and action, and of reading as an act of acknowledgment. Intervening in cutting-edge debates while bringing Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell to new readers, Revolution of the Ordinary will appeal beyond literary studies to anyone looking for a philosophically serious account of why words matter.
The World Without Us
Author: Alan Weisman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312427900
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312427900
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence
The prophet of Nazareth; or, A critical inquiry into the prophetical, intellectual and moral character of Jesus Christ, essay
Author: Evan Powell Meredith
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Tractatus Theologico-politicus; a Critical Inquiry Into the History, Purpose, and Authenticity of the Hebrew Scriptures ... From the Latin ...
Author: Benedictus de Spinoza
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Pages : 408
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The Prophet of Nazareth; Or, A Critical Inquiry Into the ... Character of Jesus Christ ...
Author: Evan Powell Meredith
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Dark Ecology
Author: Timothy Morton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231541368
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231541368
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.