Tolstoy as Teacher

Tolstoy as Teacher

Author: graf Leo Tolstoy

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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In the years before he wrote War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy founded and ran a school on his estate at Yasanya Polyana. Brimming with progressive and sometimes radical ideas on schooling, Tolstoy undertook to teach the peasant children many subjects-including imaginative writing-and wrote about what he learned. This is a book for anyone who cares about education.


Education and the Limits of Reason

Education and the Limits of Reason

Author: Peter Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1135050597

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In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or philosophical texts can be helpful. Drawing on the work of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, the authors demonstrate that literature can allow us to see how reason is understood and expressed, contested and compromised – by distinctive individuals, under particular circumstances, in complex and varied relations with others. Novels, plays and short stories can take us into the workings of a rational or irrational mind and show how the inner world of cognitive activity is shaped by external events. Perhaps most importantly, literature can prompt us to ask searching questions of ourselves; it can unsettle and disturb, and in so doing can make an important contribution to our educational formation. An original and thought provoking work, Education and the Limits of Reason offers a fresh perspective on classic texts by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, and encourages readers to reconsider conventional views of teaching and learning. This book will appeal to a wide range of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, literature and philosophy.


Tolstoy on Education

Tolstoy on Education

Author: graf Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Rutherford, [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Includes Tolstoy's major writings on the education of children. For several years Tolstoy devoted his time to running a school for children, founded on the principle that children must be free to determine their own education.


Yasnaya Polyana School

Yasnaya Polyana School

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-10

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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'Yasnaya Polyana School' is a publication written by Leo Tolstoy about the school for peasant children that he opened at his home. He delineates the curriculum, the schedule, and the number of classes held, while also including anecdotes such as a fight between two of the pupils and a thieving student.


Tolstoy

Tolstoy

Author: Rosamund Bartlett

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 0547545878

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This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.


Introduction to Tolstoy's Writings

Introduction to Tolstoy's Writings

Author: Ernest Joseph Simmons

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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This book -- consisting in large measure of a selection of material from my published works -- attempts to describe and discuss all those writings of Tolstoy which appear to have enduring significance. With few exceptions, they are works that have been translated into English. His fiction and plays have been considered with some regard for chronological order in an effort to trace Tolstoy's development as a creative artist. But I have also included treatments of major non-literary works in order to show his concurrent development as a thinker and reformer in such diverse fields as education, religious thought, aesthetics, and social, political, and moral problems. The book is not intended for scholarly specialists on Tolstoy, though they might gain some insights here and there from its pages, nor does it pretend to offer studies in higher criticism of his famous novels. The effort is what its title indicates -- an introduction to the writings of Tolstoy for those readers who wish initially to find their way among his voluminous works. - Preface.


Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Author: Liza Knapp

Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780873529051

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Anna Karenina is probably the most often taught nineteenth-century Russian novel in the American academy. Teachers have found that including this virtuoso work of art on a syllabus reaps many rewards and stirs up heated classroom discussion -- on sex and sexuality, dysfunction in the family, gender roles, society's hypocrisy and cruelty. But translation and transliteration problems, the peculiarity of Russian names and terms, and the unfamiliarity of Russian geography and history present a range of pedagogical challenges.


The Three Questions

The Three Questions

Author: graf Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Creative Company

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780871919625

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A king visits a hermit to gain answers to three important questions.


Towards New Education

Towards New Education

Author: Mahatma Gandhi

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9788172290788

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Towards New Education Gandhijis ideas in regard to this New Education did not, of course, suddenly emerge from his brain in 1937, but were the outcome of long years of sustained thought and experience. The present book relates to this earlier formative period when he revolted from the prevailing system of education and sought in various ways to substitute it by educational practices more in harmony with his own conception of the function of education. To understand adequately the Basic Education scheme which he formulated in 1937 it is essential to go back to this earlier period where we can see it in origin and growth. The present book may, therefore, be said to be a necessary companion volume to the one on Basic Education.