The student a short history
Roth narrates a dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present. Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus and moving to medieval apprentices, students at E...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2023]
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| Summary: | Roth narrates a dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present. Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus and moving to medieval apprentices, students at Enlightenment centers of learning, and learners enrolled in twenty-first-century universities, he explores how students have been followers, interlocutors, disciples, rebels, and children becoming adults. There are many ways to be a student, Roth argues, but at their core is developing the capacity to think for oneself by learning from others, and thereby finding freedom. In an age of machine learning, this book celebrates the student who develops more than mastery, cultivating curiosity, judgment, creativity, and an ability to keep learning beyond formal schooling. Roth shows how the student throughout history has been someone who interacts dynamically with the world, absorbing its lessons and creatively responding to them. -- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 202 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300280159 0300280157 9780300250039 0300250037 |
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