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50 Years of ERIC
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Garrison, Jim – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Listening is largely overlooked in cultures constituted on the basis of the freedom of speech, such as we find in the United States and elsewhere. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The article explores compassionate listening as a creative spiritual activity. Such listening recognizes the suffering of others…
Descriptors: Listening, Religious Factors, Philosophy, Buddhism
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Rud, A. G.; Garrison, Jim – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: The reconsideration of reverence was proposed by Paul Woodruffi's 2001 book, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. In examining reverence, we draw on moral philosophy, particularly the revival of virtue ethics, and acknowledge Woodruff's cross-cultural studies of reverence, particularly in ancient Greece and Confucian China.…
Descriptors: Listening, Ethics, Moral Values, Teachers
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Garrison, Jim; Rud, A. G. – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Our article develops insights from Paul Woodruff's book, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue (Oxford University Press, 2001), to discuss reverence in teaching. We show how reverence is both a cardinal and a forgotten virtue by situating it within the philosophical tradition of virtue ethics, which involves traits of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Classroom Environment
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Schneider, S. B.; Garrison, Jim – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: Our article examines some of the philosophical underpinnings of knowledge-producing schools (KPS). KPS is an Australian initiative advanced by such researchers as Chris Bigum, Colin Lankshear, and Michael Knobel. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: We examine the epistemology and the theory of new literacy that…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Philosophy, Progressive Education, Literacy
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Dwight, Jim; Garrison, Jim – Teachers College Record, 2003
Calls for digital technology in education to embrace forms of pedagogy appropriate for hypertext, challenging western metaphysics and relying on the philosophy of John Dewey to propose an alternative. The paper reviews dominant models of curriculum, especially Ralph Tyler's, revealing their concealed metaphysical assumptions; shows that the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Hypermedia
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Simpson, Pamela J.; Garrison, Jim – Teachers College Record, 1995
Focusing on assessments of the performance of one fourth-grade student, the article makes a case for teaching and moral perception (the capacity to comprehend the unique needs and aspirations of individual students), arguing that assessing students in the absence of moral perception is a serious mistake. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 4