Discipleship or Pilgrimage?

Tony W. Johnson is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations and Director of the Teachers Academy at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

"Tony Johnson's book contains an explosive thesis: that philosophers of education make assumptions about knowing, learning, and the value of professionalism that are self-defeating and educationally destructive. In delineating these ironies, Johnson deepens the critique of the professionalized, departmentalized university. I commend this book to your close attention." — From the Preface by Bruce Wilshire, author of The Moral Collapse of the University"In my judgment, the author delivers a scathing, yet well intended indictment of what the field of philosophy of education has become. At the end he offers us a vision of how the field might repair itself. His ideas are both accurate and insightful."— Philip L. Smith, The Ohio State University School of Education

• Notes from the Series Editor, Philip L. Smith Foreword by Bruce Wilshire 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Nineteenth Century Origins of Educational Philosophy 3. Educational Philosophy in the Twentieth Century 4. The Professionalization of Philosophy and Educational Philosophy 5. Postmodernist Critiques of Philosophy and Educational Philosophy 6. Philosophy as Education: Reviving Dewey's Vision 7. Philosophy for Children: Implementing Dewey's Vision 8. Educational Philosophy: Discipleship or Pilgrimage? Notes Subject Index Index of Names