1st Edition
Education, Experience and Existence Engaging Dewey, Peirce and Heidegger
By John Quay
Copyright 2013
224 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
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Education, Experience and Existence proposes a new way of understanding education that delves beneath the conflict, confusion and compromise that characterize its long history. At the heart of this new understanding is what John Dewey strove to expound: a coherent theory of experience. Dewey’s reputation as a pragmatist is well known, but where experience is concerned pragmatism is only half... Read more
Part I: Confusion in Philosophy and Education Education, Philosophy and Existence Part II: A Coherent Theory of Experience Reflective Experience and the Logical Difference. The Challenge of Non-reflective (Aesthetic) Experience. The Ontological Difference. The Way of Phenomenology. Heidegger's Questioning of Be-ing Part III: A Coherent Theory of Education Four Causes of Educational Confusion. Educating Through Occupations as Ways of Be-ing.
Biography
John Quay is Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.
