1st Edition

Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education

Edited By Wendy Kohli Copyright 1995
412 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education presents a series of conversations expressing many of the multiple voices that currently constitute the field of philosophy of education. Philosophy of education as a discipline has undergone several turns--the once marginal perspectives of the various feminisms, critical Marxism, and poststructuralist, postmodernist and cultural theory have... Read more
1. Contextualizing the Conversation Wendy Kohli; Part I: WHAT COUNTS AS PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION?: 2. What Counts As Philosophy of Education? Maxine Greene; 3. The Discourse of Philosophy of Education Walter Feinberg; 4. Counting Down to the Milennium D.C. Phillips; Part II: VARIATIONS FROM/ON THE CANON: Aims and Purposes of Education: 5. Education for Domestic Tranquillity Jane Roland Martin; 6. Pragmatism: The Aims of Education and the Meaning of Life Alven Neiman; 7. Permit Them to Flourish Philip W. Bennett; 2Rationality and Reason: 8. Reasonable Doubt: Toward a Postmodern Defense of Reason as an Educational Aim Nicholas C. Burbules; 9. Educating for Emancipatory Rationality Wendy Kohli; 10. Reconceiving Reason Emily Robertson; Educating for Moral and Ethical Life: 11. Postmodernism, Ethics, and Moral Education Clive Beck; 12. Care and Moral Education Nel Noddings; 13. Extending the Boundaries of Moral Education David E. Purpel; Knowledge and Certainty in Uncertain Times: 14. For the Stranger in My Home: Self-Knowledge, Cultural Recognition, and Philosophy of Education Rene Vincente Arcilla; 15. Narrative in Philosophy of Education: A Feminist Tale of Uncertain Knowledge Lynda Stone; 16. Knowledge and Certainty; Feminism, Postmodernism, and Multiculturalism Harvey Siegel; Educating for Public Life: 17. Educating for Public Life James M. Giarelli; 18. Education for Citizenship Kevin Haris; 19. Education for Citizenship: Obstacles and Opportunities Patricia White; Part III: EXPANDING/EXPLODING THE CANON: Culture, Art, and Representation: 20. Textuality and the Designs of Theory Suzanne de Castell; 21. Beyond the Formal and the Psychological: The Arts and Social Possibility Landon E. Beyer; Difference, Identity, and Otherness in a Multicultural World: 22. The Difference We Make: Philosophy of Education and The Tower of Babel Kal Alston; 23. Postmodern Dilemmas Svi Shapiro; Toward a Ecological Perspective: 24. Toward an Ecological Perspective C.A. Bowers; 25. Whose Ecological Perspective? Bringing Ecology Down to Earth Madhu Suri Prakash; Sex, Gender, and the Body: 26. Matters of the Mind Jo Anne Pagano; 27. Turning Tricks Mary S. Leach; Power, Knowledge, and Interets: 28. Needs, Interests, Growth, and Personal Autonomy: Foucault on Power James D. Marshall; 29. Putting the Political Back Into Autonomy James Tooley.

Biography

Wendy Kohli