1st Edition

Phenomenology and Education Self-consciousness and its Development

Edited By Bernard Curtis, Wolfe Mays Copyright 1978
184 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

This volume of essays brings a phenomenological focus to bear on the subject of education in order to provide a fruitful stimulus for educational philosophy. It is for philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and indeed anyone who seeks to understand the perennially interesting questions about the nature of self-consciousness and how our view of it might affect our thinking about education.... Read more
Preface. Introduction Bernard Curtis  1. Kierkegaard’s Theory of Subjectivity and Education Louis P. Pojman  2. Kierkegaard and the Educative Function of the Imagination Ronald Grimsley  3. Piaget and Pre-Reflective Experience Neil Bolton  4. Piaget: Formal and Non-formal Elements in the Child’s Conception of Causality Wolfe Mays  5. Soul-Contact Bernard Curtis  6. Soul-Contact: A Reply to Bernard Curtis J.L. Mackie  7. Sartre’s Les Mots: A Defence of Normality P.M.W. Thody  8. Ontology and Play J.M. Heaton  9. Phenomenology of Memory: Some Implications for Education David Farrell Krell

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Bernard Curtis, Wolfe Mays