Contemporary approaches to a pedagogy of process
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Thomas E. Peterson
Abstract
This essay explores the bases for a process theory of learning applicable across the disciplines in today’s academy. First it traces the modern history of process pedagogy beginning with Kant and leading through Cassirer and Whitehead to an array of contemporary approaches that favor the symbiosis of art and science over the lingering Cartesian dichotomy of “subjective” mental processes and “objective” forms of knowledge. Second, it examines the case of science education, specifically as regards habit formation, ethical instruction, and qualitative research. Thinkers as diverse as Whitehead, Bourdieu, Serres, Latour, and Dewey are seen to oppose the neoscholastic myth of scientific objectivity and favor a language of relations that fosters an “anastomosis” between the disciplines. Lastly, the essay examines the pedagogical role played by logical abduction, as articulated by Peirce and developed further by later scholars. Thus the essay’s three sections – starting with the historical discussion, moving to the field-specific problem of science education, and finally the issue of abductive reasoning – reinforce one another and aim to exemplify the dynamic integration of the general and specific, of mind and nature, that is a goal of process pedagogy.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Contemporary approaches to a pedagogy of process
- Signs as functions: Edusemiotic and ontological foundations for a semiotic concept of a sign
- Edusemiotics as process semiotics: Towards a new model of semiosis for teaching and learning
- The implications for education of Peirce’s agapist principle
- Writing and Différance
- Seeing through the metaphor: The OECD quality toolbox for early childhood
- Values, edusemiotics, and intercultural dialogue: From Russia with questions
- Usage de l’objet, signification et émergence de la conscience à l’étape préverbale du développement: Une perspective édusémiotique
- Les intuitions édusémiotiques des grands pédagogues : Engagement sémiotique, théorie de l’enquête et narrativité
- Edusemiotics and Karl-Otto Apel’s transcendental semiotics
- Edusemiotics of meaningful learning experience: Revisiting Kant’s pedagogical paradox and Greimas’ semiotic square
- Can design inquiry advance edusemiotics? Rethinking factual information and imaginative interpretation
- Monstrous hermeneutics: Learning from diagrams
- Learning to take play seriously: Peirce, Bateson, and Huizinga on the sacrality of play
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Contemporary approaches to a pedagogy of process
- Signs as functions: Edusemiotic and ontological foundations for a semiotic concept of a sign
- Edusemiotics as process semiotics: Towards a new model of semiosis for teaching and learning
- The implications for education of Peirce’s agapist principle
- Writing and Différance
- Seeing through the metaphor: The OECD quality toolbox for early childhood
- Values, edusemiotics, and intercultural dialogue: From Russia with questions
- Usage de l’objet, signification et émergence de la conscience à l’étape préverbale du développement: Une perspective édusémiotique
- Les intuitions édusémiotiques des grands pédagogues : Engagement sémiotique, théorie de l’enquête et narrativité
- Edusemiotics and Karl-Otto Apel’s transcendental semiotics
- Edusemiotics of meaningful learning experience: Revisiting Kant’s pedagogical paradox and Greimas’ semiotic square
- Can design inquiry advance edusemiotics? Rethinking factual information and imaginative interpretation
- Monstrous hermeneutics: Learning from diagrams
- Learning to take play seriously: Peirce, Bateson, and Huizinga on the sacrality of play
