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Description.
"The Radical Educator Series" is a six-book series covering a great depth and breadth of ideas pertaining to educational history, educational philosophy, and educational practice. From chapter titles like "The Classroom in Metaphor" to "Microwavable Pop Culture" this series is for the tenured professor and undergraduate student alike. Each book has been written to be a stand-alone text, focusing on a unity of concepts or themes to help us better understand, in part and in whole, the distinct qualities and gifts of a great education, in particular a great classroom. As a whole, the series moves from philosophy to practice, from foundational concepts in book one to more teacher-focused rules in book five, ending in a cornucopia of essays in book six, The Appendix of Trifles. Written with the Ciceronian aim to teach, to move, and to delight (docere, movere, et delectare), this series is truly radical, reaching to the roots of education. Book Titles. Book One: What's Wrong with the Classroom Book Two: The Weight of Teaching Book Three: The Five Academic Competencies Book Four: The Eight Kinds of Teaching Book Five: 12 Rules for Teachers Book Six: The Appendix of Trifles Striking at the Root (from the Series Preface). "...In what is great education rooted? What does it mean, historically but most especially today, to strike at the root of education? Radical education is rooted education; it is education rooted in our humanity, rooted in the beauty of learning, rooted in wisdom that is beyond our age. It is a central argument to this series, in every book and chapter in this series, that unless there is a fundamental shift in how we understand learning, children, and therefore education, we will continue to hack at the leaves of a rotting tree. However, this series is not just a critique of how we, at present, are getting many important things wrong; it is not just a critic among the modern voices of education. I have also sought for it to be poetic, constructive; it offers solutions, philosophical and practical solutions. It is a well-rooted idea in education that a proper philosophy and practice of education is far more than purchasing and teaching peculiar curricula. It is more than a plug-and-play mentality where a homeschool parent or school administrator grabs the most “suitable curriculum” they can, places it in some instructor’s hand (even their own), and then asks the instructor to input that curriculum or textbook into whatever classroom environment happens to take shape. As this series puts forth, to “be educated” means something deeper, more personal, more comprehensive, more human than just a solitary academic decision regarding curricula or testing. A great classroom, a great education, is both a science and an art, it is a human artifact and a mystery, it is a dance and a blueprint, it is a concrete and incarnate reality and a metaphysical and spiritual playground. It is where ideas have deep consequences, where students are both seed and soil, and where teachers must have both technical tools and wise intuition in order to find that symphonic harmony that makes the soul of education sing..." |