Description
| Product ID: | 9781538166611 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Philosophy of Education |
| Subtitle: | Thinking and Learning Through History and Practice |
| Authors: | Author: John Ryder |
| Page Count: | 286 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Philosophy and theory of education, History of education, Philosophy & theory of education, History of education |
| Description: | Ryder's engaging text welcomes students and practicing teachers into the intellectual framework of current education systems and pedagogy. Not assuming prior knowledge of philosophy, the book outlines general principles, acknowledges outlying factors, and presents a systematic and socially conscious approach to the practice of teaching. Written for masters courses in which most students are already practicing teachers, this book is based on three structural principles.
The book is divided into two parts. Part I is historically oriented, and it consists of four chapters that introduce the reader to four of the most influential figures in the history of philosophical thinking about education: Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, and Paolo Freire. Each chapter deals with one of the figures, and more specifically, with one text of each author: Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Emile, Dewey’s Democracy and Education, and Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Education is the focus of each of these books, and in each case its author explores the basic philosophical questions related to education in a systematic way, which is to say by relating the discussions of education to broader analyses of reality, knowledge, philosophical anthropology, and socio-political matters. Each chapter guides the reader through the text, with an emphasis on the educational principles advanced and their relation to more general philosophical issues. There are three advantages for the reader having read these four chapters
Part II is an undertaking in the systematic philosophy of education that identifies and justifies general conceptions of reality, knowledge, society, and the state, and articulates educational principles that may be advanced in relation to them. There are three chapters in Part II. The first, Chapter 5 of the book, identifies the general educational problems that we would want a systematic philosophy of education to address. These concern the issues of goals, content, method, stakeholders, occasions, and locations, that the reader would have already encountered in Part I. Chapter 6 proposes and justifies responses to metaphysical and epistemological questions, and questions of human experience generally, that may plausibly underlie educational principles. It goes on to articulate the educational principles that are consistent with the general philosophical conceptions that have been proposed and for which some justification has been offered. The underlying philosophical tradition from which this analysis emerges is pragmatic naturalism, and so it has a certain Deweyan flavor. Chapter 7 follows the same structure, but with a focus on philosophical issues related to social and political questions, and on the educational principles that they suggest, in fact in some cases imply. The book’s Conclusion provides a brief overview and summary of the educational principles that seem most consistent with the philosophical analyses of the preceding two chapters. The point is not to offer the reader ideas with which she should agree, since in the best philosophical thinking disagreement is always possible. The point is to help the reader to understand what it is to do the philosophy of education, and to provide a model for her own thinking about basic educational questions. A reader who completes the book will have achieved several pedagogically and philosophically useful results:
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| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-09-16 |
