The Long Schoolroom: Philosophical Readings in W. B. Yeats's Poem 'Among School Children'

Autor/in	Nutbrown, Graham
Titel	The Long Schoolroom: Philosophical Readings in W. B. Yeats's Poem 'Among School Children'
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 67 (2019) 3, S.355-369 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nutbrown, Graham)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1080/00071005.2019.1650162
Schlagwörter	Poets; Poetry; Philosophy; Progressive Education; Literature Appreciation; Literary Criticism; Class Activities; Children; Constructivism (Learning); Role of Education; Reading Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dichter; Lyrik; Poesie; Philosophie; Reformpädagogik; Progressive Erziehung; Literarische Wertung; Literaturkritik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Bildungsauftrag; Leseunterricht
Abstract	In the mid-1920s the poet W. B. Yeats was pleased to discover contemporary philosophers, Giovanni Gentile and A. N. Whitehead, whose metaphysical and educational philosophies seemed to coincide with his own commitments. Whitehead shares with Gentile a sense of reality as activity and an understanding of knowledge as constructed from abstractions that are open to evaluation and imaginative reconfiguration. Yeats was a Senator of the Irish Free State and took an interest in schooling. Soon after visiting a Montessori-inspired girls' school in Waterford, he began his poem 'Among School Children". (The text of the poem is printed at the end of this paper.) I argue that an awareness of the philosophical ideas Yeats had recently encountered should encourage restless rather than fixed interpretations of the poem and that this sense of restlessness and imaginative reconfiguration reflects the approach to education the three writers, at that time, shared: that at best our modes of apprehension provide only glimpses of reality and therefore each child's understanding and learning must be kept moving. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01