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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Practice of Theoretical Curiosity
  name:
    name part: Zuss, Mark.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 206 p. online resource.
  abstract: The desire for knowledge is an abiding facet of human experience and cultural development. This work documents curiosity as a sociohistorical force initiating research across the disciplines. Projects generated by theoretical curiosity are presented as historical and material practices emerging as expressions of embodied knowledge and experience. The shifting cultural, philosophical and practical relations between theory and curiosity are situated within classical, medieval, early modern and contemporary communities of practice. The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity advocates for a critical, aesthetic engagement in everyday life. Its purpose is to examine the pedagogical grounds and questions that motivate research programs in the sciences, education, technoculture and post-war social movements. Theoretical curiosity continually resists disciplinary limits. It is a core, embodied process uniting human pursuits of knowledge and power. This inquiry into inquiry itself offers an appreciation of the vital continuity between the senses, perception, and affect and concept development. It is informed by a critical reading of phenomenology as the embodied practice of researchers. This study sponsors a deepening of theory in practice and the practice of theoretical exploration. As a contribution to pedagogical practice, it offers a historical critique of the usually unquestioned philosophical, political and ethical grounds for educational, scientific and social research. The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity profiles significant alliances and persona as agents for the pursuit of novel and often controversial research, adventures and discovery. It claims that the place of technology and the technical is the primary channel for contemporary inquiry. The technosciences of genomics, artificial life and astrobiology are considered as contemporary extensions of a perennial desire to pursue and resist the limits of existing knowledge and representation.
  table of contents: Preface: Thinking Curiously -- Chapter One: First Questions -- Chapter Two: A Taming of the Passions.-Chapter Three: Pedagogies of Curiosity -- Chapter Four: The Sphinx -- Chapter Five: Curiosity and the Question -- Chapter Six: Technics: Thinking Life -- Chapter Seven: Minds, Limits, Spaces.
  note: by Mark Zuss.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Phenomenology
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Education
  subject:
    topic: Phenomenology
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 370.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9789400721173
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2117-3
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    record creation date: 110907
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