Paideia At Play
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Author | : Werner Riess |
Publisher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9077922415 |
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Paidea, the yearning for, and display of knowledge, reached its height as a cultural concept in the works of the Second Sophistic, an elite literary and philosophical movement seeking to ape the style and achievements of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. A crucial element in the display of paidea was an ability to mix the witty and playful with the serious and instructive. The Second Sophistic is known as a Greek phenomenon, but these essays ask how the Latin author Apuleius fitted into this framework, and created a distinctively latin expression of paidea, focusing on the elements of playfulness at its heart.
Author | : Doris Pronin Fromberg |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780815317456 |
Download Play from Birth to Twelve and Beyond Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This Encyclopedia presents 62 essays by 78 distinguished experts who draw on their expertise in pedagogy, anthropology, ethology, history, philosophy, and psychology to examine play and its variety, complexity, and usefulness. Here you'll find out why play is vital in developing mathematical thinking and promoting social skills, how properly constructed play enhances classroom instruction, which games foster which skills, how playing stimulates creativity, and much more.
Author | : Doris Pronin Fromberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2021-12-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000525201 |
Download Play from Birth to Twelve Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
First published in 1998. Play is pervasive, infusing human activity throughout the life span. In particular, it serves to characterize childhood, the period from birth to age twelve. Within the past twenty years, many additions to the knowledge base on childhood play have been published in popular and scholarly literature. This book assembles and integrates this information, discusses disparate and diverse components, highlights the underlying dynamic processes of play, and provides a forum from which new questions may emerge and new methods of inquiry may develop. The place of new technologies and the future of play in the context of contemporary society also are discussed.
Author | : William Stephenson |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781412838269 |
Download The Play Theory of Mass Communication Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The literature on mass communication is now dominated by "objective sociological "approaches. What makes the work of Stephenson so unusual is his starting points: his frank willingness to adopt a "subjective "and "psychological "approach to the study of mass communication. In short, this is an internal analysis of how communication processes are absorbed by individuals. The theory of play is not a doctrine of frivolity, but rather a way in which Stephenson gets at such sensitive areas of communication theory as what is screened out and why. Without a notion of the play element in communication one would be led to imagine that every televised docudrama would be immediately lived out by every adolescent. Clearly, this is not the case. People can distinguish quite well between imaginary and real events in mass communication contexts. "The Play Theory of Mass Communication "is a work that studies subjective play, how communication serves the cause of self-enhancement and personal pleasure, and the role of entertainment as an end in itself. In short, for those who are tired of cliche-ridden volumes on the political hidden messages and meanings of communication, or the economic management of media decisions, this volume will come as a refreshment, a piece of entertainment as well as instruction. But with all the emphasis "on "aspects, Stephenson's volume is shrewdly political. He takes up themes ranging from the reduction! of international tensions to the happily alienated worker to such pedestrian events as the reporting of foreign Soviet dignitaries in their visits to democratic cultures. This is, in short, an urbane, wise book--sophisticated in its methodology and critical in its theorizing.
Author | : Iain Ross |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1107020328 |
Download Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Author | : George Douglas Atkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Deconstruction |
ISBN | : |
Download Writing and Reading Differently Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Mortimer J. Adler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 1998-10-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1439104905 |
Download Paideia Proposal Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for all children. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of basic human rights fell short of 20th century expectations. The Paidea Proposal was based upon the following assumptions: 1) All children are educable; 2) Education is never completed in school or higher institutions of learning, but is a lifelong process of maturity for all citizens; 3) The primary cause of learning is the activity of the child's mind, which is not created by, but only assisted by the teacher; 4) Multiple types learning and teaching must be utilized in education, not just teacher lecturing, or telling; and 5) A student's preparation for earning a living is not the primary objective of schooling. Adler stressed that the proposal is much more than just a return to the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic. It is not simply a return to the values of classical civilization, but a return to what is of enduring value. It is a democratic proposal intended for the education of all, and not an elitist program as some have alleged.
Author | : Meriel Jones |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199570086 |
Download Playing the Man Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examining and contextualising key discourses of ancient Greek masculinity in the five 'ideal' Greek novels, Jones argues that many of the novels' men depend very much on the maintenance of their image before others, and that they are conscious of 'playing the man'.
Author | : Lieve Van Hoof |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004279474 |
Download Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Late Antiquity is often assumed to have witnessed the demise of literature as a social force and its retreat into the school and the private reading room: whereas the sophists of the Second Sophistic were influential social players, their late antique counterparts are thought to have been overshadowed by bishops. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD argues that this presumed difference should be attributed less to a fundamental change in the role of literature than to different scholarly methodologies with which Greek and Latin texts from the second and the fourth century are being studied. Focusing on performance, the literary construction of reality and self-presentation, this volume highlights how literature continued to play an important role in fourth-century elite society.
Author | : Eric Voegelin |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780826212986 |
Download Plato Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Once again available in paperback, Plato is the first half of Eric Voegelin's Plato and Aristotle, the third volume of his five-volume Order and History, which has been hailed throughout the Western world as a monumental accomplishment of modern scholarship.