Educational Philosophy and Theory
Levinas and the Philosophy of Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Guoping Zhao
May 07, 2020
Delving into Levinas’s ideas in nuanced and sophisticated ways, this book innovatively blends and juxtaposes Levinas with other thinkers, perspectives, and fields of thinking. Some contributions are traditional, but superbly analyzed and argued renderings of his thought, and they contrast with more...
The Confucian Concept of Learning: Revisited for East Asian Humanistic Pedagogies
1st Edition
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By Duck-Joo Kwak, Morimichi Kato, Ruyu Hung
May 07, 2020
What does the Confucian heritage mean to modern East Asian education today? Is it invalid and outdated, or an irreplaceable cultural resource for an alternative approach to education? And to what extent can we recover the humanistic elements of the Confucian tradition of education for use in world ...
Activating Aesthetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth M. Grierson
March 22, 2019
Activating Aesthetics addresses questions of aesthetics in various fields of education, with the aim of investigating a way of revealing how aesthetics may activate an engaged, responsive and poetic pedagogy. The writers in this collection enliven different ways of thinking about aesthetics, ...
Educational Philosophy and New French Thought
1st Edition
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By David R. Cole, Joff P.N. Bradley
February 14, 2019
Contemporary French philosophy perhaps reached a high point during the 1970s with the likes of Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Since that time, thinkers such as Francois Laruelle, Bernard Stiegler, Quentin Meillassoux and Catherine Malabou have continued on in this strong ...
The Dilemma of Western Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Michael A. Peters, Carl Mika
February 14, 2019
This edited collection takes a multifaceted approach to the various limitations and achievements of Western philosophy. Considered on its own, Western philosophy is a highly contentious name. The contributors question its validity as a label and take to task its grand appearance within education. ...
Philosophy and Pedagogy of Early Childhood
1st Edition
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By Sandy Farquhar, E. White
September 18, 2018
In recent years, new discourses have emerged to inform the philosophy and pedagogy of early childhood. This collection brings together contributions from leading scholars in early childhood education, and each chapter engages with the critical task of reformulating early childhood education and the...
Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice
1st Edition
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By David Simpson, David Beckett
January 12, 2018
Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice takes as its focus recent work on situated and embodied cognition, the concepts of expertise, skill and practice, and contemporary pedagogical theory. This work has made important steps towards overcoming traditional intellectualist and individualist models of ...
New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory
1st Edition
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By Scott Eacott, Colin Evers
January 12, 2018
Educational leadership has a rich history of epistemological debate. From the ‘Theory Movement’ of the 1950-1960s, through to Greenfield’s critique of logical empiricism in the 1970s, the emergence of Bates’ and Foster’s Critical Theory of educational administration in the 1980s, and Evers’ and ...
Philosophy in Schools
1st Edition
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By Felicity Haynes
January 12, 2018
In 1972, Matthew Lipman founded the Institute of Advancement for Philosophy for Children (IAPC), producing a series of novels and teaching manuals promoting philosophical inquiry at all levels of schooling. The programme consisted of stories about children discussing traditional topics of ethics, ...
Shifting Focus: Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education
1st Edition
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By Peter Roberts
May 31, 2017
There is a long history of interest in ‘strangers’ and ‘strangeness’ in the West. Literature lends itself particularly well to an exploration of the strange in its richly varied forms, having often contained portraits of outsiders. These portraits depict people who are strange in their unusual ...
Education, Ethics and Existence: Camus and the Human Condition
1st Edition
By Peter Roberts, Andrew Gibbons, Richard Heraud
May 24, 2017
Best known today for his novels, plays and short stories, but also an accomplished essayist, editor and journalist, Albert Camus was one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. He has gained widespread recognition for works such as The Stranger, Caligula, The Plague and Exile ...