1st Edition
Moral and Political Discourses in Philosophy of Education
Introduction
Indrani Bhattacharjee and Prakash Iyer
PART I: Democratic Theory, and Education in a Democracy
1. Civic Education in a Democratic Society
Geoffrey Hinchliffe
2. Education, Social Realism and Liberal Cultural Values
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
3. Education, Essentialism, and the Epistemic Vices of Intolerance
Johannes Drerup
PART II: Purposes of Moral and Political Education
4. Did the Marathas Rule India? Reflections on Postmodernism, Reality and School History Textbooks
Amman Madan
5. Caring Pedagogies: Beyond Critique
Kanchana Mahadevan
6. Beyond Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore’s University and the Politics of the Self
Sukalyan Chanda
7. Moral Education, Development of the Self and Role of Nature: An Enquiry into Tagore’s Philosophy of Education
Roma Bhattacharya
8. The Moral Purpose of Schooling in England during a Changing Context: Promoting Human Capability and Development
Oliver Wimborne
PART III: Teaching-Learning and the Environment in a School
9. Structural Violence in a School Setting: A Philosophical Discussion on Conflict Resolution
Alex Guilherme
10. Teaching Tolerance and Political Judgement: Bearing on Higher Education
Prakash Iyer
11. Questions and Performatives: Communities of Enquiry as Conventional Contexts
Enrico Postiglione
12. A Dialogic Approach to Education for Democratic Values Illustrated with an Empirical Study of the Effect of Internet-Mediated Dialogue across Cultural Differences
Rupert Wegerif
Biography
Prakash Iyer is Assistant Professor, Philosophy of Education at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. His research interests are in moral and political philosophy, particularly the implications of conflicts between political theories on political education.
Indrani Bhattacharjee is Assistant Professor, Philosophy of Education at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. She is working on a book on the philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, circa 1908-1916.
