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A Philosopher’s Perspective on the UK’s Higher Education

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A Philosopher’s Perspective on the UK’s Higher Education

Teaching in the Iron Cage

By: Brendan Larvor

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How can teachers pursue the creative goals of an ideal university within real bureaucracies? Larvor reflects on teaching undergraduates, experts, and prisoners, insisting on the importance of the affective dimension of learning and the unpredictability of the student encounter.

In this collection of research articles and reflective essays, Brendan Larvor argues that the principal task of teachers in higher education is to find ways…

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Author: Brendan Larvor ISBN: 1-5275-7383-4 Categories: Social Sciences, Philosophy, Philosophy, Education

In this collection of research articles and reflective essays, Brendan Larvor argues that the principal task of teachers in higher education is to find ways to pursue the creative, romantic and liberal goals of the ideal university, when real universities are rationalised bureaucracies, according to the thoughts of Max Weber. Larvor reflects on the differences between teaching philosophy undergraduates, expert practitioners and prisoners. He insists on the importance of the affective dimension of learning and the unpredictability of the encounter between students and curricula. This book will interest anyone concerned about the current condition of higher education, and anyone interested in the relationship between the intimate, human activity of teaching and the bureaucracies in which it takes place.

Brendan Larvor is a reader in philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is the author of Lakatos, an Introduction (1998) and over fifty academic papers on the philosophy of mathematics, education and pedagogy, and other topics. He is the editor of Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014 (2016). He has served on the executive committee of the British Philosophical Association and the directive committee of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (USA). He is currently a senior fellow of The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences Chair: Diversity of Mathematical Research Cultures and Practices (Hamburg) and a member of the editorial board of Annals of Mathematics and Philosophy.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-7383-4
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7383-3
Date of Publication: 2024-02-15

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-1774-3
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-1774-1
Date of Publication: 2024-11-20

Ebook

ISBN: 1-5275-7428-8
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7428-1
Date of Publication: 2024-11-20

Categories: Social Sciences, Philosophy, Philosophy, Education

Pages: 226

Subject Codes:

BIC: HP, JNA, JNM
THEMA: QD, JNA, JNM

Pages: 226

“This is a witty and elegantly written book, making its points thoughtfully and engagingly, and which anyone working in higher education (whether a philosopher or not) would benefit from reading, and almost certainly enjoy. The author’s curiosity and interdisciplinary reading mean that there is something new for the reader on each page, and he is very good at both explaining and motivating unfamiliar material for a reader who might be, variously, a philosophy lecturer, a secondary school mathematics teacher, an inmate detained at His Majesty’s pleasure, or a quality assurance officer in higher education. I have not read anything quite like it in the philosophical literature (though like the author I am familiar with the books of Polya and others in mathematical education). I recommend it very highly.”
- Professor Richard Ashcroft Deputy Dean of City, University of London, UK, and Chair of the Senate Research Ethics Committee of the University of London, UK

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Brendan Larvor

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