Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
Looking to rent a book? Rent Imitation and Education : A Philosophical Inquiry into Learning by Example [ISBN: 9780791474273] for the semester, quarter, and short term or search our site for other textbooks by Warnick, Bryan R.. Renting a textbook can save you up to 90% from the cost of buying.
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
The Problems of Imitation and Human Exemplarity | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Mysteries of Learning by Example: An Outline | p. 9 |
The Historical Tradition of Human Exemplarity | p. 13 |
Imitative Models of Human Exemplarity: The Standard Model | p. 13 |
Enlightenment Criticism and Nonimitative Exemplars | p. 18 |
The Historical Tradition: An Initial Assessment | p. 26 |
How Do People Become Examples? | p. 31 |
The Nature of Examples | p. 33 |
How Does Something Become an Example? | p. 37 |
Educational Implications | p. 44 |
Conclusion | p. 49 |
How Do Examples Bring Out Imitation? | p. 53 |
The Link between Action and Perception | p. 57 |
The Sense of Self and the Imitative Sorting Mechanism | p. 61 |
The Narrative-Self Theory of Imitation | p. 65 |
The Social Nature of Narrative and Imitation | p. 73 |
Educational Implications | p. 77 |
Conclusion | p. 82 |
The Social Meanings of Imitation | p. 83 |
The Meanings of Following an Example | p. 87 |
Imitation and Community Identity | p. 93 |
Imitation, Initiation, and Education | p. 97 |
Factors Influencing Imitative Meaning | p. 100 |
Imitation and Communities of Learning | p. 105 |
Conclusion | p. 107 |
Imitation, Exemplarity, and Moral Reason | p. 109 |
The Practical Objection to Imitating Examples | p. 110 |
A Social Response to the Practical Objection | p. 113 |
The Theoretical Objection to Imitating Examples | p. 119 |
A Social Response to the Theoretical Objection | p. 120 |
Conclusion | p. 125 |
How Can We Evaluate Human Exemplars? | p. 127 |
Ancient Skepticism, Exemplarity, and Criticality | p. 129 |
The Turn to Practices and Exemplar Rotation | p. 134 |
A Critical Education and Exemplarity: A Conclusion | p. 136 |
A Social Analysis of Exemplarity and Imitation | p. 139 |
Notes | p. 147 |
References | p. 153 |
Index | p. 163 |
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.