Teachers and Teaching: Time and the Creative Tension - Softcover

Roy, Kaustuv

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030246728 ISBN 13: 9783030246723

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

Against the backdrop of a historical debate between science and philosophy with regard to the nature of time, this book argues that our commonsense understanding of time is inadequate―especially for education. Teachers’ work is heavily imbued with the effects of clock time, and yet there is another time―duration―which remains out of sight precisely because our sights are filled with temporal things and projections of futurality. The book rests primarily on Henri Bergson’s work on time, and works toward intuition as phenomenological method for the discovery of a creative time in experience.

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About the Author

Kaustuv Roy is Professor in the College of Education at Azim Premji University, India. Previously, he was faculty at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. His recent books include Rethinking Curriculum in Times of Shifting Educational Context (2018) and Education and the Ontological Question: Addressing a Missing Dimension (2019), both published by Palgrave Macmillan.

From the Back Cover

Against the backdrop of a historical debate between science and philosophy with regard to the nature of time, this book argues that our commonsense understanding of time is inadequate―especially for education. Teachers’ work is heavily imbued with the effects of clock time, and yet there is another time―duration―which remains out of sight precisely because our sights are filled with temporal things and projections of futurality. The book rests primarily on Henri Bergson’s work on time, and works toward intuition as phenomenological method for the discovery of a creative time in experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030246728
• ISBN 13: 9783030246723
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220