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Reflection, Science and the Virtues

Gibbons, Tony, author

Overview

The word 'reflect' appears in curriculum documents, in texts, in proposals, and in plans. No proposal appears complete without the word. To reflect is evidently a good thing, but what does it mean? It is not just being reasonable. Without a grasp of what it means to reflect how is it possible to implement the proposals and plans? This book tackles the problem of what it is to reflect. In doing so it examines the importance of reflection for a flourishing human being and its place in two major areas of human thought and education - science and ethics. Science is essentially a reflective activity and the teaching and development of science must acknowledge this. The acquisition and practice of the virtues is also essentially a reflective activity as is evident in both the Aristotelian and the Confucian traditions. To be prudent, for instance, is to be reflective. The teaching of science and the learning of the virtues depend upon the development of the capacity to reflect. Reflection appears to be an activity that is distinctive of human beings. This book will be of interest to teachers and those responsible for the administration and development of education, whether it be primary, secondary or tertiary. It also has something to say to anyone who is responsible for planning for the future. And, as we all do that, it has something to say to all of us. -- back cover.

• Publisher: Sense Publishers
• Subject: Science Study and teaching. / Education Philosophy.
• ISBN: 9789087908720, 9087908725, 9789087908713, 9087908717, 9789087908737, 9087908733

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
Q181 G53 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE