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Childhood, Education and Philosophy: New ideas for an old relationship book cover

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Childhood, Education and Philosophy New ideas for an old relationship

By Walter Kohan Copyright 2015
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the idea of a childlike education and offers critical tools to question traditional forms of education, and alternative ways to understand and practice the relationship between education and childhood. Engaging with the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben and Simón Rodríguez, it contributes to the development of a philosophical framework for the... Read more

Preface: School and The Future of Schole: A Preliminary Dialogue With David Kennedy  Part I. Inspirations for a Childlike Education  1. Teaching as verification of equality: Jacques Rancière and The ignorant schoolmaster  2. The teaching of the courage of living in Socrates and the Cynics: Michel Foucault  3. Nomadism, creation, iconoclasism and popular education: Simón Rodríguez  Part II. Philosophy and a Childlike Education  4. Philosophy and childhood. Possibilities of an Encounter  5. Childhood, Education and Philosophy: Notes on Deterritorialization.  6. Plato and Socrates: From an Educator of Childhood to a Childlike Educator?  Afterword: "The pedagogue and / or the philosopher? Thinking with Jan Masschelein"

Biography

Walter Kohan is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also a Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Brazil (CNPQ) and the Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support Foundation (FAPERJ), and was previously President of the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC).

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