Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning: Ethics, Education, Upbringing by Dr Ru

Description: Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning by Dr Ruth Cigman What is a good human life? A life of duty? Virtue? Happiness? This book weaves a path through traditional answers. We live well, suggests the author, not primarily by pursuing goods for ourselves, but by cherishing other people and guiding them towards lives of cherishing. We cherish objects too – the planet, my grandfathers watch – and practices like music-making to which we are personally drawn. In this work of populated philosophy (copiously illustrated by literary and real life examples), a cherishing life is presented as hard and irreducibly individual. The idea of cherishing, says the author, points towards intimate, unreasonable layers of the ethical life, as well as the deepening of wisdom and connection. It also points towards incomparable satisfactions, reminding us who we are and who we want to be. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ruth Cigman is Honorary Senior Research Associate in Philosophy of Education at IOE, UCLs Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Table of Contents Series Editors ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: We Need to Talk About Children1. 1. A Sense of Moral Crisis2. 2. Ministering to the GoodPart II: Enhancing Children3. 3. Should We Try to Make Children Happy?4. 4. Should We Equip Children for Twenty-First-Century Life?5. 5. Should we Promote Flourishing through Virtue?6. 6. Should we Foster Respect through Inclusion?Part III: Cherishing Children7. 7. Humanness and the Difficulty of Reality8. 8. Aristotle and the Transformation of Emotion9. 9. An Ethic of CherishingBibliographyIndex Review Ruth Cigman develops a style of thinking that attempts to get to the pith of what may be most at stake for children inside and outside classrooms. Her book will be of special interest to teachers and parents who are sensitive to the singularity of… children and the daunting difficulty that their lives often present to themselves and to others… Cigman deftly exposes the misplaced confidence driving several currently favoured reform agendas. And she shows why helping young people to thrive may require us not to ward off troubling intuitions but (in Iris Murdochs words, which she quotes) to complicate, alter and deepen them. This is a rare and welcome kind of philosophical writing… engaged and engaging, deeply humane and vividly persuasive. * Joseph Dunne, Cregan Professor of Philosophy and Education, Emeritus, Dublin City University, Ireland *At a time when caring has become the name of an activity, with no emotional content, it is useful to have the concept of cherishing introduced, as that which should define the relation between teacher and pupil … Ruth Cigman powerfully and often movingly argues that nothing less will do. Her book … is highly original, in being centred on the conversation which she regards as the essence of teaching. * Baroness Mary Warnock, philosopher and author of An Intelligent Persons Guide to Ethics (1998) *I often disagree with the author, but there is no questioning her wit, the lucidity of her writing and the originality of her insights. An exhilarating read, unmissable for all lovers of educational philosophy. * Kristján Kristjánsson, Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK * Promotional Ruth Cigman explores how a thoroughly ethical conception of enhancement, suitable for the raising and educating of children in the modern world, might be achieved. Review Quote "Ruth Cigman develops a style of thinking that attempts to get to the pith of what may be most at stake for children inside and outside classrooms. Her book will be of special interest to teachers and parents who are sensitive to the singularity of... children and the daunting difficulty that their lives often present to themselves and to others... Cigman deftly exposes the misplaced confidence driving several currently favoured reform agendas. And she shows why helping young people to thrive may require us not to ward off troubling intuitions but (in Iris Murdochs words, which she quotes) to complicate, alter and deepen them. This is a rare and welcome kind of philosophical writing... engaged and engaging, deeply humane and vividly persuasive." -- Joseph Dunne, Cregan Professor of Philosophy and Education, Emeritus, Dublin City University, Ireland "At a time when caring has become the name of an activity, with no emotional content, it is useful to have the concept of cherishing introduced, as that which should define the relation between teacher and pupil ... Ruth Cigman powerfully and often movingly argues that nothing less will do. Her book ... is highly original, in being centred on the conversation which she regards as the essence of teaching." -- Baroness Mary Warnock, philosopher and author of An Intelligent Persons Guide to Ethics (1998) "I often disagree with the author, but there is no questioning her wit, the lucidity of her writing and the originality of her insights. An exhilarating read, unmissable for all lovers of educational philosophy." -- Kristj Promotional "Headline" Ruth Cigman explores how a thoroughly ethical conception of enhancement, suitable for the raising and educating of children in the modern world, might be achieved. Feature Analyses and criticises the policy interventions of the enhancement agendas Details ISBN1350151637 Pages 224 Year 2020 ISBN-10 1350151637 ISBN-13 9781350151635 Publication Date 2020-02-20 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Ethics, Education, Upbringing Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 370.114 Short Title Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning Language English Author Dr Ruth Cigman UK Release Date 2020-02-20 NZ Release Date 2020-02-20 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2020-02-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126888556;

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