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Education and Schmid's Art of Living
Philosophical, Psychological and Educational Perspectives on Living a Good Life
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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Instead of simply following the current neoliberal mantra of proclaiming economic growth as the single most important factor for maintaining well-being, Education and Schmid’s Art of Living revisits the idea of an education focused on personal development and the well-being of human beings. Drawing …
Education and the Limits of Reason
Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov
Av Peter Roberts, Herner Saeverot
Häftad, 2018
714 kr
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In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and …
Radical Schooling for Democracy
Engaging Philosophy of Education for the Public Good
Av Neil Hooley
Häftad, 2019
714 kr
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Radical Schooling for Democracy proposes that formal education around the world has a serious philosophical weakness: as the ideology of neoliberalism increasingly dominates economic and as a consequence, educational and social life, formal education has adopted a narrow, rational and economic …
Heidegger and Executive Education
The Management of Time
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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Global corporations and the senior executives who oversee them have been subject to great criticism in recent times: not only do such corporations hold extreme concentrations of wealth, but they continue to sanction staggering pay inequalities between the haves and the have-nots. At the same time, …
Education between Speech and Writing
Crossing the Boundaries of Dao and Deconstruction
Av Ruyu Hung
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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This unique book explores how graphocentrism affects Chinese education and culture. It moves away from the contemporary educational practices in China of following the Western model of phonocentrism, to demonstrate that each perspective interacts and counteracts with each other, creating a dialogue …
Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Education
Rethinking Ethics, Equality and the Good Life in a Democratic Age
Av Mark E. Jonas, Douglas W. Yacek
Häftad, 2020
670 kr
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Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Education makes the case that Nietzsche’s philosophy has significant import for the theory and contemporary practice of education, arguing that some of Nietzsche's most important ideas have been misunderstood by previous interpreters. In providing novel …
Towards a Posthuman Theory of Educational Relationality
Av Simon Ceder
Häftad, 2020
627 kr
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Towards a Posthuman Theory of Educational Relationality critically reads the intersubjective theories on educational relations and uses a posthuman approach to ascribe agency relationally to humans and nonhumans alike. The book introduces the concept of ‘educational relationality’ and contains …
Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education
A Humanities Based Approach to Research and Practice
Häftad, 2020
627 kr
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Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education explores the role of philosophy and the humanities as pedagogy in early childhood educational research and practice, arguing that research should attend to questions about education and growth that concern social structures, individual …
Bearing with Strangers
Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion
Häftad, 2020
627 kr
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Bearing with Strangers looks at inclusion in education in a new way, regarding education as a discipline with practical and theoretical concepts and criteria which emanate from education and schooling itself. By introducing the notion of the instrumental fallacy, it shows how this is not only an …
Between Truth and Freedom
Rousseau and our contemporary political and educational culture
Av Kenneth Wain
Inbunden, 2014
2433 kr
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This book engages in a broad reading of Rousseau’s writings on educational and political thought in order to explore and address the competing demands of the enculturation and individuation of the young in Western societies. Although Rousseau’s Emile has been frequently utilised in educational …
Edusemiotics
Semiotic philosophy as educational foundation
Av Andrew Stables, Inna Semetsky
Inbunden, 2014
2433 kr
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Edusemiotics addresses an emerging field of inquiry, educational semiotics, as a philosophy of and for education. Using "sign" as a unit of analysis, educational semiotics amalgamates philosophy, educational theory and semiotics. Edusemiotics draws on the intellectual legacy of such philosophers as …
Henri Lefebvre and Education
Space, history, theory
Häftad, 2016
892 kr
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During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more than 70 books, few were available in English until The Production of Space was translated in 1991. While this work - often associated with geography - has …
Henri Lefebvre and Education
Space, history, theory
Inbunden, 2013
2433 kr
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During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more than 70 books, few were available in English until The Production of Space was translated in 1991. While this work - often associated with geography - has …
On Study: Giorgio Agamben and educational potentiality
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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In an educational landscape dominated by discourses and practices of learning, standardized testing, and the pressure to succeed, what space and time remain for studying? In this book, Tyson E. Lewis argues that studying is a distinctive educational experience with its own temporal, spatial, …
Buber and Education
Dialogue as conflict resolution
Av W. John Morgan, Alexandre Guilherme
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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Martin Buber (1878-1965) is considered one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers and his contributions to philosophy, theology and education are testimony to this. His thought is founded on the idea that people are capable of two kinds of relations, namely I-Thou and I-It, emphasising the …
African Philosophy of Education Reconsidered
On being human
Av Yusef Waghid
Inbunden, 2013
2433 kr
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Much of the literature on the African philosophy of education juxtaposes two philosophical strands as mutually exclusive entities; traditional ethnophilosophy on the one hand, and ‘scientific’ African philosophy on the other. While traditional ethnophilosophy is associated with the cultural …
Education, Experience and Existence
Engaging Dewey, Peirce and Heidegger
Av John Quay
Inbunden, 2013
2433 kr
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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 …
Education and the Limits of Reason
Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov
Av Peter Roberts, Herner Saeverot
Inbunden, 2017
2433 kr
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In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and …
Between Truth and Freedom
Rousseau and our contemporary political and educational culture
Av Kenneth Wain
Häftad, 2017
805 kr
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This book engages in a broad reading of Rousseau’s writings on educational and political thought in order to explore and address the competing demands of the enculturation and individuation of the young in Western societies. Although Rousseau’s Emile has been frequently utilised in educational …
Democratic Education and the Public Sphere
Towards John Dewey’s theory of aesthetic experience
Häftad, 2017
783 kr
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This book considers John Dewey’s philosophy of democratic education and his theory of public sphere from the perspective of the reconstruction and redefinition of the dominant liberalist movement. By bridging art education and public sphere, and drawing upon contemporary mainstream philosophies, …
Social Justice and Educational Measurement
John Rawls, the history of testing, and the future of education
Häftad, 2017
712 kr
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Social Justice and Educational Measurement addresses foundational concerns at the interface of standardized testing and social justice in American schools. Following John Rawls’s philosophical methods, Stein builds and justifies an ethical framework for guiding practices involving educational …
Bearing with Strangers
Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion
Inbunden, 2018
2433 kr
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Bearing with Strangers looks at inclusion in education in a new way, regarding education as a discipline with practical and theoretical concepts and criteria which emanate from education and schooling itself. By introducing the notion of the instrumental fallacy, it shows how this is not only an …
Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education
A Humanities Based Approach to Research and Practice
Inbunden, 2019
2433 kr
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Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education explores the role of philosophy and the humanities as pedagogy in early childhood educational research and practice, arguing that research should attend to questions about education and growth that concern social structures, individual …
Ilan Gur-Ze’ev and Education
Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace
Häftad, 2021
629 kr
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Ilan Gur-Ze'ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace critically analyses and introduces the main ideas of Ilan Gur-Ze’ev, reflecting on his continuing theoretical and practical relevance to the field of education. This book offers an accessible, higher-level critical discussion on …
Caring Confrontations for Education and Democracy
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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Caring Confrontations for Education and Democracy makes a compelling case for redirecting current practices of education to focus on being educated rather than having an education. The book offers a detailed analysis of how an education for democracy must encourage commitment to important ideals …
Education, Crisis and Philosophy
Ubuntu within Higher Education
Av Yusef Waghid
Inbunden, 2022
2433 kr
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This book brings together a discussion of educational philosophy, nihilism and humanity to rethink education in times of crisis, with a particular focus on teaching and learning in universities. The book argues that an educational crisis manifests when the value of academic institutions come under …
Education, Crisis and Philosophy
Ubuntu within Higher Education
Av Yusef Waghid
Häftad, 2024
627 kr
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This book brings together a discussion of educational philosophy, nihilism and humanity to rethink education in times of crisis, with a particular focus on teaching and learning in universities. The book argues that an educational crisis manifests when the value of academic institutions come under …
Education, Authority, and the Critical Citizen
Democratic Schooling and the Disestablishment of Education and State
Av Neil Wilcock
Inbunden, 2023
2433 kr
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This book offers a unique analysis of the tension between the individual and society in educational contexts, and the role that citizenship and democratic education can play. It approaches the question from two different perspectives – the institutional and the interactional – and argues that any …
Education, Authority, and the Critical Citizen
Democratic Schooling and the Disestablishment of Education and State
Av Neil Wilcock
Häftad, 2024
631 kr
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This book offers a unique analysis of the tension between the individual and society in educational contexts, and the role that citizenship and democratic education can play. It approaches the question from two different perspectives – the institutional and the interactional – and argues that any …
Essays in the Phenomenology of Learning
The Challenge of Proximity
Av Fiachra Long
Inbunden, 2022
2433 kr
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This book explores the phenomenology of learning with particular focus on the ‘closeness’ or ‘proximity’ of the knowledge that impacts on learners, young and old.Studying the power of learning to transform human beings, this book offers an in-depth discussion of how different phenomenologists …
