Derrida on Language and Philosophical EducationStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 40 - Trang 149-163 - 2020
Samir Haddad
The relationship between national languages and schooling is a recurring theme in Derrida’s writings on education, playing an important role in the challenge he mounts to traditional understandings of the French State’s involvement in the teaching of philosophy. In this essay, I follow this thread of thinking across several of Derrida’s texts, paying specific attention to his diagnoses of position...... hiện toàn bộ
Towards a new philosophy of education: Extending the conversational metaphor for thinkingStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 10 - Trang 297-314 - 1991
Eric C. Pappas, James W. Garrison
Recently, feminists like Jane Roland-Martin, Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, and others have advocated a conversational metaphor for thinking and rationality, and our image of the rational person. Elizabeth Young-Bruehl refers to thinking as a “constant interconnecting of representations of experiences and an extension of how we hear ourselves and others. There are numerous disadvantages to thinking about...... hiện toàn bộ
Praxis and Agency in Foucault’s HistoriographyStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 23 - Trang 445-466 - 2004
Lynn Fendler
This paper examines the consequences for agency that Foucault’s historiographical approach constructs. The analysis begins by explaining the difference between ‘legislative history’ and ‘exemplary history,’ drawing parallels to similar theoretical distinctions offered in the works of Max Weber, J.L. Austin, and Zygmunt Bauman. The analysis continues by reading Habermas’s critique of Foucault throu...... hiện toàn bộ
Listening to DialogueStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 25 - Trang 175-190 - 2006
Nancy Vansieleghem
In accordance with Progressivism, Matthew Lipman, introduced an educational model for renewal and change by means of the child. With his Philosophy for Children programme he wished to offer an alternative for the intellectualistic oriented education which silenced children. The answer to the search for freedom and change, Lipman finds in the symbioses between ‘Philosophy’ and ‘Children’. Philosoph...... hiện toàn bộ
Transforming and Redescribing Critical Thinking: Constructive ThinkingStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 17 - Trang 123-148 - 1998
Barbara Thayer-Bacon
The author describes a published symposium which debated “Is Critical Thinking Biased?” The symposium meant to address concerns about critical thinking that are being expressed by feminist and postmodern scholars. However, through the author's critique, and the symposium respondent's, we learn the participants ended up begging the question of bias. The author maintains that the belief that critica...... hiện toàn bộ
Grading the ‘cultural literacy’ projectStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 10 - Trang 315-335 - 1991
Rodger Beehler
The essay examines the argument advanced by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., for instituting ‘cultural literacy’ as a fundamental priority of schools. A number of confusions and equivocations in Hirsch's reasoning are identified, and the propensity of his project to indoctrinate is exposed. Among the features of Hirsch's argument shown to be troubling are his shifting construal of ‘language’, his inconsistency a...... hiện toàn bộ