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Dialectics of Knowing in Education: Transforming Conventional Practice into its Opposite book cover

1st Edition

Dialectics of Knowing in Education Transforming Conventional Practice into its Opposite

By Neil Hooley Copyright 2019
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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Dialectics of Knowing in Education strengthens the philosophical basis of formal education that has been weakened by neoliberalism over the past 30 years. It theorises and encourages human existence based on social action, culture, inquiry and creativity so that citizens in democratic association can formulate their own understandings of the world and be their own philosophers of practice.... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgements

Dedication: John Dewey

Poem: Intellect

PART I: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards

1. Materialism and Dialectics

2. Science and Humanities as Praxis

3. Intersubjective Praxis

4. Living with Ethical Conduct

PART II: Looking Inwards, Looking Outwards

5. Subjectification: How We Are

6. Thinking about Consciousness

7. Language, Thought and Creativity

8. Thinking in Social and Technological Environments

PART III: Looking to the Earth, Looking to the Sky

9. Indigenous Philosophy and Knowledge

10. Feminism and Education

11. Bricolage: Practitioner Knowledge and Research

12. Dialectics of Democracy, Citizenry, Knowing: A Letter to Those Who Would Act and Teach

References

Index

Biography

Dr Neil Hooley is an Honorary Fellow in the College of Arts and Education, Victoria University Melbourne. He has interests in Democracy and Social Justice, Philosophy of Education, Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Action Research. He supports recognition, respect and reconciliation between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Australia.

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