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Author:   Jack P. Cunningham (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK) ,  Steven Puttick
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9780367273026

ISBN 10:   0367273020
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   09 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Preface Richard Pring. Emeritus Prof of Education, Oxford University. Introductory Chapter. Robert Grosseteste and the educational renaissance in Twelfth and thirteenth century Western Europe. Jack P. Cunningham. Section One: Robert Grosseteste and the Medieval Ordered Human. Chapter 1. Deification as the goal of human order according to Robert Grosseteste. Gioacchino Curiello. Chapter 2. Robert Grosseteste on Eudaimonia, Happiness, and Learning: Why the Nicomachean Ethics may be useful. Rosamund Gammie. Chapter 3. Robert Grosseteste and the Theory of Learning: The Ordered Human, Robert Grosseteste and Poetry. Charles Roe. Chapter 4. ‘Gentleness and Discretion’: Medieval Perspectives on Childhood Learning and Guiding Adult Education. Giles E. M. Gasper and Michael E. M. Gasper. Section Two: Modern Education through the Grossetestian Lens. Chapter 5. Knowledge and Virtue: re-ordering humans in Robert Grosseteste’s Philosophy of Education. Steven Puttick. Chapter 6. The legacy of Robert Grosseteste and the Teaching of experimental Physics to 14-16 years olds in England. Brian Tanner and Robert Tanner. Chapter 7. The Human Ordering of the Arts and Science. Tom McLeish. Chapter 8. The contested call for ‘what works’ education research: the Nature of contemporary education research discourses and Grosseteste’s views on the anima mundi. Adam Hounslow-Eyre. Chapter 9. Rejecting the Market-Place: Using the Past to Inspire Access to University Education. Peter Claus and Giles E. M. Gasper. Section Three. Grossetestian Theories of Learning and Pedagogy. Chapter 10. Children as natural philosophers. A perspective upon the enhancement of children’s confidence through the Philosophical spectacles of Grosseteste and Gadamer. Roger Wood. Chapter 11. How does Social Constructivism as displayed in contemporary educational settings compare with the Grossetestian view of the development of human Knowledge? Smaragda Kampouri, Nick Gee, Elaine Howell and Ami Montgomery. Chapter 12. Robert Grosseteste, a proto-Constructivist? Abigail Dorr and Sacha Mason. Chapter 13. Robert Grosseteste’s illumination theory and Jack Mezirow’s Transformative Learning: an educational Appraisal. Karl Aubrey.

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Jack P. Cunningham is Reader in Ecclesiastical History and Programme Leader for Theology at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK. Steven Puttick is Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, UK.

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