Reviews for Inventions of Teaching A Genealogy

The average rating for Inventions of Teaching A Genealogy based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-11-13 00:00:00 W. Joe Lyon Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy By: Brent Davis Reflection by: Pashew Nuri Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy By: Brent Davis An un-putdown-able book, but I was obliged to put it down time to time. Making me think of the ideas and views to look them up, sometimes stumbled but I was obliged again not to stop. The idea that teaching is not a profession to provide the teacher a provision to live was always in my mind that it's a false assumption, because what is the purpose of learning if this is the case for teaching? The meaning of teaching and learning is a must for every teacher and learner to understand, which doesn't mean they have to understand it as I understand it but rather their own understanding of it almost underscores the entire course of what Brent Davis says the book. Reading this book gave me a flashback to the rest of the books I read in this semester, when I finished I said to myself "well, there was not a big difference among them", as the previous ones were also possessing the same idea of the philosophy of education. The two chapters of Foundation of American Education by L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha and K. Forbis Jordonn were telling the same things that teaching is not and cannot be out of nothingness. Teachers possess their own personal philosophy of education and compare that to the philosophy of education. All those philosophies and theories showing the way we teach and the way the students learn give the meaning to what education is and what the educators do, The Mindful Teacher by Elizabeth Macdonald and Dennis Shirley was asking educators to stop for a while and think of what they are doing and why they are doing it, through meditations and constant contemplations, and Neil Postman in his masterpiece The End of Education told me how to redefine the value and meaning behind schooling and education, he basically focused on the why quest during his book which also refers to the philosophy of education. So, basically in all the books the same idea was a focal point in the education issue. Read the rest here

Review # 2 was written on 2013-01-05 00:00:00 Karan Price Brent Davis describes the genealogy of teaching through history in the context of epistemological discourses. The structure of the book follows the branching of a tree as various concepts are described as bifurcations of more basic conceptions of knowledge. Complexity thinking, post-structuralism, mysticism, postivism, critical theory, ecological discourses,and empiricism are among the concepts that are fleshed out and their impact on current understandings of teaching are addressed. This book would be useful to any teacher who wants to recognize their philosophical position within the ongoing evolution of teaching.