Bridges to Autonomy Paradox in Teaching and Learning

Name: Bridges to Autonomy Paradox in Teaching and Learning
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ISBN: 9780983185383

ISBN-10: 0983185387

ISBN-13: 9780983185383

Edition: 2011

Authors: Matthew R. Silliman, David Kenneth Johnson

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Teaching is a paradoxical activity, beset by ironies and apparent contradictions: Educated people are autonomous and self-directed, but schooling generally involves expert direction of compliant and dependent students. Empathy, imagination, and creativity characterize fully actualized people, but these qualities seem at odds with mastering received bodies of material. Societies value testable facts and abilities, but these are of little use, and can even be dangerous, without maturity of character. Educators rightly value teaching for maturity, but risk in the process indoctrination or natural resistance. Modeling forthrightness would seem indispensable to character development, but some of…