Overview
- Offers a new approach to a hitherto neglected subject
- Has a heuristic value and interest for similar studies
- Offers a variety of case studies, belonging to different cultural areas and periods
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 301)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Postface
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern sources, and how notions of “teaching” and “learning” are to be understood.
Tackling two problems: the first, is that of certain sources of scientific knowledge being studied without taking into account the various “contexts” of transmission that gave this knowledge a long-lasting meaning.
The second is that other sources are related to teaching and learning activities, but without being too precise and demonstrative about the existence and nature of this “teaching context”. In other words, this book makes clear what is meant by “context” and highlights the complexity of the practice hidden by the words “teaching” and “learning”. Divided into three parts, the book makes accessible teaching and learning situations, presents comparatist approaches, and emphasizes the notion of teaching as projects embedded in coherent treatises or productions.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives
Editors: Alain Bernard, Christine Proust
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5122-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5121-7Published: 13 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7806-0Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5122-4Published: 26 November 2013
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 334
Number of Illustrations: 227 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Science