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Leo Tolstoy /
How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opened an experimental school on his estate to try and answer them. His experie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England ; New York, New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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| Colección: | Continuum library of educational thought.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Author's Preface; Introduction; Part 1 An Intellectual Biography of Leo Tolstoy; Chapter 1 Early Experiences and Influences; Education in Tolstoy's early literature; Tolstoy's early adulthood; Early influences on Tolstoy's educational thought; The tour of Europe; Chapter 2 Tolstoy the Educator; The Yasnaya Polyana school and the origins of Tolstoy's literature; Pupils as coauthors; The end of the experiment; The reopening of the school; The 'great battle' with the pedagogues; The education of Tolstoy's own children.
- Chapter 3 The Prophet of Yasnaya PolyanaReligious conversion in Tolstoy's literature; Tolstoy's definition of religion; The Scribes and the Pharisees; Tolstoyanism; Excommunication and death; Part 2 A Critical Exposition of Tolstoy's Educational Thought; Chapter 4 The Pedagogical Laboratory; The problem; The solution; Some characteristics of the experimental school; Chapter 5 The Results of the Yasnaya Polyana Experiment; The importance of children's freedom to form their own concepts; History, geography and sacred history; The arts; Literacy.
- The Azbuka, New Azbuka and Russian Books for ReadingTolstoy's restatement on popular education; Chapter 6 The Devil of False Education; Education and progress; The problem of a national education system; The problem with universities; Criticism of formal education in Tolstoy's novels; False education as the work of the devil; Chapter 7 The Spiritual Nature of a Genuine Education; Later writings on education; Tolstoy's last essay on education; The educational vision of Tolstoy's last major works; The wisdom of children; Part 3 The Legacy of an Overlooked Educator.
- Chapter 8 The Reception and Influence of Tolstoy's Educational ThoughtThe reception of Tolstoy's educational thought in the twentieth century; Tolstoy's ideas and Anglophone educationists; Tolstoy and the progressives; Tolstoy and John Dewey; Tolstoy's influence; Chapter 9 Tolstoy's Relevance for Today's Educators; Knowledge, curriculum and indoctrination; Tolstoy and religious education; Tolstoy's view of the relationship between theory and practice; The autonomy of the teacher and Tolstoy's view of educational research; The relevance of a literary genius; Chapter 10 Conclusion; Epilogue.