Philosophy of Education

Current debates in Clinical Legal Education (CLE) exclude essay writing as a legitimate form of ‘clinical’ pedagogy. This article argues that essay writing should be classified as a form of CLE due to its potential to mirror legal practice and enhance students' reflective capacities. By incorporating Hegelian dialectical reasoning, the paper proposes a structured approach to legal essay writing that includes thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This method encourages students to engage deeply with legal arguments, reflecting on their merits and counterarguments. (...) The dialectical approach aligns with constructivist teaching methodologies, promoting critical thinking and practical skills relevant to legal practice and beyond. The article outlines the theoretical basis of this model and provides a practical framework for its implementation in legal education. It further connects this pedagogical strategy to the development of transferable skills that prepare students for professional legal environments. Through this dialectical method, the paper advocates for a more holistic and nuanced understanding of legal concepts, bridging the gap between academic theory and practical application, and, thus, making the case for the incorporation of Hegel-inspired essay writing into the definition of CLE. (shrink)

This book brings together clear and concise definitions of 33 key terms used by the great educational thinker, Paulo Freire. From 'critical consciousness' to 'concientization' and from 'oppressed' to the 'banking model of education' Freire's concepts and ways of understanding education are as relevant today as they ever were. The critical definitions attend to the theoretical and practical implications of each term allowing readers to appreciate the philosophical and emancipatory nature of Freire's work and learn how these ideas can be (...) applied in educational, social, and political setting to drive social change. (shrink)

Students, parents, teachers, leaders, and policy-makers generate and take responsibility for their efforts, often without understanding the nature of the responsibility they hold. Barbara S. Stengel argues that every educational interaction is a call to and opportunity for responsibility for all involved. In short, responsibility represents the goal for students, the guiding vision for educators' practice, and a useful design principal for leaders and policy makers. Using a critical pragmatist framing of the concept of responsibility, Stengel shows how greater attention (...) to responsibility allows for a deeper understanding of diversity and equity as well as individual and common goods. It enables a deeper understanding of the moral dimensions of teaching and learning prospectively in growth rather than retrospectively in blame. The philosophical discussion of responsibility is coupled with discussion of the lived experiences of students, teachers, aides, and administrators and draws evidence from a case study of a middle school turnaround in Nashville, USA. The Bailey Middle School community developed a reading of responsibility that matched educators' intuitions and experiences of their work, while enhancing students' understanding of their place in the world. The book represents a call for educators to be, and become, responsible for their and their students' lives-in-common and the individual well-being of all in the community. (shrink)

Les recherches présentées dans cet ouvrage s'inscrivent dans deux grandes familles épistémologiques, celle des approches narratives et celle de l'analyse de l'activité. Les auteur(e)s convoquent les principes théoriques et méthodologiques de ces deux approches pour interroger la place du sujet dans le travail éducatif à partir de plusieurs points de vue : l'intersubjectivité d'une situation éducative et la spécificité de la rencontre qu'elle génère ; le rôle des outils narratifs et réflexifs dans l'émancipation de l'individu ; la prise en compte (...) de la temporalité dans l'élaboration et l'analyse de ces outils ; l'importance d'une posture de recherche collaborative prenant en compte l'ensemble des sujets impliqués dans cette rencontre. Impulsé par l'équipe Profeor du laboratoire CIREL et ouvert à d'autres auteurs experts de ces champs, l'ouvrage propose un dialogue entre ces deux familles épistémologiques, souvent abordées de façon distincte, ainsi qu'entre chercheurs, professionnels de l'éducation et de la formation et apprenants."--Page 4 of cover. (shrink)

Designed specifically for teachers and education students, with carefully selected articles, lectures, and book chapters covering Dewey's major ideas.

An unanswered question on the making of Pedagogy of the Oppressed is when, where and how this book was written, edited, and published. The Preface of the original Portuguese handwritten manuscript is dated in Chile by 1967. Some scholars imply that the manuscript was finished sometime in March or April 1969. By then, Freire had left Chile and three of his books had been published by the Institute of Research and Training in Agrarian Reform, ICIRA. Freire himself had already committed (...) the English translation, from the original Portuguese manuscript with Herder & Herder in New York, together with the Spanish translation published by Tierra Nueva in Uruguay. This book explores the ways in which Freire's time and work in Chile proved to be decisive in the making of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, widely considered one of the most important books on critical pedagogy and adult learning and education in the twentieth century. The scope is confined to Paulo Freire's years of political exile in Chile, from late November 1964 to mid-April 1969. It builds upon evidence provided by scholarly research to answer four questions. What did Paulo Freire do during his years of exile in Chile. In which institutional contexts did he develop his pedagogical methods and political ideas? How was his literacy training method and participatory research approach shared throughout Latin America and the rest of the world? To what extent did his exile in Chile influence a paradigm shift in literacy training and adult education? (shrink)

Assata Zerai reflects on three decades of scholarship and examines ways in which scholars and professors have begun to move their disciplines from a focus on traditional canons of the modernist era to embrace decolonial sensibilities in research, teaching, and institutional transformation, bringing about change within higher education.

Prepare white preservice teachers to be successful in urban contexts. This cutting-edge curriculum shows how to complicate teachers' awareness of identity anda foster teachers' understanding of their own identity and positionality. The text includes clear and transferable principles, practices, lesson plans, assignments, readings, and a companion website.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the research process, starting with foundational paradigms and philosophical approaches that shape how research is conducted in education.

The aim of this book is to provide a collection of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research on innovative and engaging practices, methods, and professional learning.

This book prioritizes integrating social justice into student affairs by discussing professional identity, standards, and competencies throughout each chapter. Infusing historical context, philosophical foundations, elements of ethical decision-making, service and experiential learning, and leadership models takes practice and requires intentionality. Chapter One of this text will address in more detail the history of student affairs from an equity and justice perspective. Chapter Two introduces the ethic of care and social justice. Chapter Three discusses the philosophical and practical applications of experiential (...) learning. Chapter Four covers the role of values and ethics in decision-making for student affairs educators. Lastly, Chapter Five reflects on the foundations of our field while turning our attention to the future. (shrink)

Debates in Doctoral Education offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary doctoral programmes, exploring the challenges and opportunities that shape them. Split into three key sections the book addresses fundamental debates, covering topics such as the massification of doctoral programmes, inclusivity, ethical considerations, postgraduate researcher development, and the complexities of doctoral supervision. These comprehensive discussions lay the groundwork for thinking about the nuanced character of doctoral education and its broader implications. The book then shifts its focus to the challenges of supervising (...) doctoral candidates. It examines the delicate balance that both supervisors and students must maintain throughout the doctoral journey, including considerations of preparedness, motivation, peer interactions, and the academic environment. It also explores the specific challenges of professional practice doctorates and the examination of PhD theses. Designed to inspire academics to navigate the ever-evolving world of doctoral education and explore the broader implications of doctoral study. This book will provide a valuable resource for anyone involved in or interested in doctoral education, highlighting the intricacies and dynamics of this critical aspect of higher education. (shrink)

School can be an epicenter for expressing what troubles or energizes the wider community. Taking a step back from the messiness of today's issues and clarifying what we mean by school may provide a new or refreshed lens for viewing these institutions. Schools are sacred, not in a religious sense but in terms of their potential value. At all levels of schooling, teaching and learning are its sacred tasks. And teaching and learning are sacred because the knowledge and skills they (...) impart can potentially open the learner's mind to meaning-making, wisdom, and self-understanding, where values are clarified and life commitments are made. Seeing the school as sacred implies that its environs are sacred space, its schedules are sacred time, and its actions are sacred rites. They are to be respected, protected, and nurtured. This has profound implications for our demeanor and actions, teaching approaches, curriculum planning, administrative priorities, policy-making, and resourcing. (shrink)

Education is marked by conflicting demands and expectations from state, society and individuals. Views of what education and schooling should be for are plenty and vary across time and place. However, one reoccurring hope of people as human beings, this book argues, is to live a good and maybe even a 'beautiful life'. Drawing on Wilhelm Schmid's notion of the art of living, this book explores how an Education for a Beautiful Life can make a meaningful contribution to some of (...) today's complicated conversations, such as (student) wellbeing, social equity, equal educational opportunity, individual and social good, and the purposes, aims and ends of education and schooling. Written in a time of increasing challenges through rapid technological innovation, shifting political landscapes, global migration, and changing work requirements, this book offers new insights to the question of what education is, and what it can do for people to navigate the challenges of our time by developing their own art of living and pursuing the hope of a good and beautiful life. (shrink)

Philosophers and educators come together to address contemporary issues in education.