The Pedagogical Contract: The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World

by Yun Lee Too

The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relationship as one that since antiquity has been regarded as a scene of give-and-take, where the teacher exchanges knowledge for some sort of payment by the student and where pedagogy always runs the risk of becoming a broken contract. The book seeks to liberate teaching and learning from this historical scene...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047211087X
• ISBN13: 9780472110872
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 9.3"