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Reincarnating Experience in Education

A Pedagogy of the Twice-Born

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Uses educational philosophy as a means towards discussing the role of education in the society

  • Follows the phenomenological method derived from the works of the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Edmund Husserl

  • Provides a vision of a kind of experiential education that strives toward illumination rather than symbolic knowledge

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Somatic Engagements: An Introduction

    • Kaustuv Roy
    Pages 1-34
  3. Meditations on Commonsense

    • Kaustuv Roy
    Pages 35-63
  4. The Eyes of the Heart

    • Kaustuv Roy
    Pages 65-90
  5. Phenomenology of the Twice-Born

    • Kaustuv Roy
    Pages 91-121
  6. Pedagogy of the Twice-Born

    • Kaustuv Roy
    Pages 123-150
  7. Praxis of the Twice-Born

    • Kaustuv Roy
    Pages 151-179
  8. Conclusion: Orbits of Intensity

    • Kaustuv Roy
    Pages 181-199
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 201-205

About this book

This book presents authentic educational experience as the actualization of a potential within a phenomenological field whose axes consist of the somatic, the psychic, and the symbolic, thereby rejecting the one-dimensionality of contemporary education that is primarily mind-oriented. The author insists on the nature of experiencing as coming to be in a living tension between the intuition and the intellect, or the inner and the outer, and calls this a pedagogy of the twice-born. Within this pedagogy, the truly educated must be born twice: in the first instance, involuntarily thrust into a commonsensical world, and in the second, taking a deliberate step toward a qualitative principle. The latter gives us ontological hope or a sense of autonomy and self-sufficiency.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India

    Kaustuv Roy

About the author

Kaustuv Roy is Professor in the Humanities Department at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. He has previously held faculty positions at Azim Premji University, India, and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. He has published five books with Palgrave Macmillan, including Teachers and Teaching: Time and the Creative Tension (2019) and The Power of Philosophy: Thought and Redemption (2018).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reincarnating Experience in Education

  • Book Subtitle: A Pedagogy of the Twice-Born

  • Authors: Kaustuv Roy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53548-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53547-6Published: 25 August 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53550-6Published: 25 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53548-3Published: 24 August 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 205

  • Topics: Educational Philosophy, Teaching and Teacher Education, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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