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Mahon, Áine – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
"The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy" was published in 2016 to critical acclaim. Rejecting outright the marketisation of the modern university, the book proposed a countercultural approach which denounced the seductive imperatives to overwork and competition and called on academics to make a more…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Commercialization, Higher Education, Faculty Workload
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Sutinen, Ari – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
The project method became a famous teaching method when William Heard Kilpatrick published his article "Project Method" in 1918. The key idea in Kilpatrick's project method is to try to explain how pupils learn things when they work in projects toward different common objects. The same idea of pupils learning by work or action in an…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Problem Solving, Learning Processes
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Nohl, Arnd-Michael – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2009
Whereas present theories of transformative learning tend to focus on the rational and reflective actor, in this article it is suggested that spontaneous action may play a decisive role in transformative learning too. In the spontaneity of action, novelty finds its way into life, gains momentum, is respected by others and reflected by the actor.…
Descriptors: Investigations, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes, Interviews
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McPherson, Ian – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2005
The Dreyfus (2001) account of seven stages of learning is considered in the context of the Dreyfus (1980s) account of five stages of skill development. The two new stages, Mastery and Practical Wisdom, make more explicit certain themes implicit in the five-stage account. In this way Dreyfus (2001) encourages a more reflexive approach. The themes…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Reflection, Learning Processes, Epistemology