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"This updated edition of Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy presents an examination of the many and varied metaphors of teaching in English. These metaphors serve as sites to excavate conflicting historical, conceptual, and philosophical influences that have contributed to modern teaching practices. Though the Eurocentric perspectives of the first edition remain a focus, they are placed in a broader context that acknowledges their, as the authors coin it, 'WEIRDness' (i.e., western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic nature). In this revised and expanded edition, these perspectives are accompanied by multiple case studies of non-Western and Indigenous educational traditions. Chapter discussions are organized as a genealogy around key conceptual bifurcations in thought rather than case-by-case analysis or a chronology. This structure allows the authors to examine the origins of distinctions that are often taken for granted, such as cognitivism vs. behaviorism, or constructivism vs. positivism. The genealogy develops around breaks in opinion that gave or are giving rise to diverse interpretations of knowledge, learning, and teaching--highlighting historical moments in which vibrant new figurative understandings of teaching emerged. A new chapter has been added, addressing the habits of interpretation needed to render the 'WEIRD' world sensible; alongside a much elaborated closing discussion, intended to bring WEIRD inventions of teaching into sharper relief by contrasting them with non-WEIRD cultures and some of their approaches to teaching. Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy is an informative text for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in curriculum studies and foundations of teaching, It is also relevant for students, faculty, and researchers across the field of education who want to explore the consequences of diversities of opinion, belief, and practice concerning teaching and closely related topics of learning, knowing and formal education"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Davis, Brent , author

Contributors:

McMurtry, Angus , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Inventions of teaching: a genealogy [by Davis, B.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Inventions of teaching [by Davis, B.] (Second edition; New York : Routledge, 2025 — ISBN 9781032792248; LCCN 2024007893)

Subjects:

Teaching — Philosophy

Education — History

Teaching

Education

Genres:

History

General Notes:

First edition published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brent Davis is Professor and Werklund Research Professor with the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Angus McMurtry is Associate Professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB14.7 .D38 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781003493440 (electronic book)
1003493440 (electronic book)
9781040097250 (electronic book)
1040097251 (electronic book)
9781040097236 (electronic book)
1040097235 (electronic book)
9781032792248 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781032792231 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024007894

OCLC Numbers:

1427663654