In the modern day, it is understood that the role of the teacher comprises aspects of therapy directed towards the child. But to what extent should this relationship be developed, and what are its concomitant responsibilities? This book offers a challenging philosophical approach to the inherent problems and tensions involved with these issues.
Author(s): Paul Standish, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 272
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Part I The Kindly Apocalypse......Page 16
1 Self-Esteem: The Inward Turn......Page 18
2 Diffidence, Confidence and Self-belief......Page 34
3 What Can be Said, What Can be Shown......Page 47
4 Reading Narrative......Page 60
5 Learning to Change......Page 81
Part II Coming to Terms......Page 96
6 Practising Dying......Page 98
7 Room for Thought......Page 118
8 The Thoreau Strategy......Page 133
9 A State of Abstraction: Knowledge and Contingency......Page 148
10 Unfinished Business: Education Without Necessity......Page 162
Part III Redeeming Philosophy, Redeeming Therapy......Page 178
11 Beyond Cure......Page 180
12 Narrative and Number: What Really Counts......Page 194
13 Learning from Psychoanalysis......Page 212
14 Enlarging the Enigma......Page 227
15 Expectation of Return......Page 243
Notes......Page 250
References......Page 257
C......Page 265
H......Page 266
O......Page 267
S......Page 268
Z......Page 269
