Mere education : C.S. Lewis as teacher for our time / Mark A. Pike.

By:

Pike, Mark A

Publisher: Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780718841867
0718841867

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mere Education : C.S. Lewis as Ethical Teacher for our TimeDDC classification:

370.115

LOC classification:

PN45 .P55 2013eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Part 1. The hinge of the wardrobe door : core values, character and Christianity -- part 2. The furniture of the house : schooling children -- part 3. Professor Lewis : cultural interpreter for educators -- part 4. The professor's house : leading on school ethos and excellence in teaching.

Summary: The word 'mere' is used in the title of this book in its Middle English sense as an adjective 'nothing less than, complete'. This book is about schooling for a fair and vibrant society; it is about an education of hope, education that completes a person. In 'The Magician's Nephew' (1955), the first in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, Digory and Polly are dragged back through time into a world that is ""devoid of life and barren of vegetation"". Such a world is not a safe place for children and young people. When C.S. Lewis wrote that the task of the modern educator is 'to irrigate dese.

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The word 'mere' is used in the title of this book in its Middle English sense as an adjective 'nothing less than, complete'. This book is about schooling for a fair and vibrant society; it is about an education of hope, education that completes a person. In 'The Magician's Nephew' (1955), the first in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, Digory and Polly are dragged back through time into a world that is ""devoid of life and barren of vegetation"". Such a world is not a safe place for children and young people. When C.S. Lewis wrote that the task of the modern educator is 'to irrigate dese.