Ethics and Teaching: A Religious Perspective on Revitalizing Education
This book studies education and curriculum from the perspective of the teacher’s stance in the classroom. Writing through the lenses offered by autobiography, a lifetime in the classroom serving as teacher, and drawing heavily on Jewish and secular scholarly texts, Block offers a vision of education that serves as an alternative to the increasingly instrumentalist, managerial, standards-driven impersonal nature of contemporary schools. He advocates not for a pedagogy of ethics, but for the...
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This book studies education and curriculum from the perspective of the teacher’s stance in the classroom. Writing through the lenses offered by autobiography, a lifetime in the classroom serving as teacher, and drawing heavily on Jewish and secular scholarly texts, Block offers a vision of education that serves as an alternative to the increasingly instrumentalist, managerial, standards-driven impersonal nature of contemporary schools. He advocates not for a pedagogy of ethics, but for the original ethical stance every teacher already assumes by entering into the classroom. It is from this stance in ethics, he argues, that all pedagogy derives.
Hakdamah 1Pt. 1 Every Third Thought Is of the Grade1 Why Be a Teacher 172 A Pedagogue for Two Teachers 393 On Finding Lost Objects 654 From Sinai to the Water Gate: Curriculum Stories 93Pt. 2 Every Third Thought Is of the Brave5 It Must Suffice 1156 Study and Benevolence 135Pt. 3 Every Third Thought Is My Grave7 Intimations of Immortality: An Ode of Sorts 159Notes 189References 195Index 199
