Ethical attentivenessStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 12 - Trang 139-151 - 1993
Paul O'Leary
Kantian virtue can be construed as a condition of an agent which secures adherence to the requirements of morality in the face of the ever-present possibility of inner conflict with counter-ethical considerations. This paper claims that this conception of virtue does not fit in well with one essential characteristic of the virtuous agent; that he or she is attentive to the well-being of others. Af...... hiện toàn bộ
Lifelong Education: From Conflict to Consensus?Studies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 17 - Trang 323-332 - 1998
Paul Hager
The concept of lifelong education received wide criticism and rejection in many educational circles in the 1970s. Recent developments in educational research and the increasing influence of postmodernist thought, the paper argues, are major factors in the return to favour of lifelong education. While a postmodern society is one characterised more by conflict than by consensus, the paper suggests t...... hiện toàn bộ
Walter Benjamin in the Age of Post-critical PedagogyStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 40 - Trang 201-217 - 2021
Itay Snir
Post-critical pedagogy, which offers a significant alternative to the dominant trends in contemporary philosophy of education, objects to seeing education as instrumental to other ends: it attempts to conceive of education as autotelic, namely as having intrinsic value. While there are good reasons for accepting the post-critical reservations with the instrumentalization of education, I argue that...... hiện toàn bộ
Why ‘What Works’ Still Won’t Work: From Evidence-Based Education to Value-Based EducationStudies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 29 - Trang 491-503 - 2010
Gert J. J. Biesta
The idea that professional practices such as education should be based upon or at least be informed by evidence continues to capture the imagination of many politicians, policy makers, practitioners and researchers. There is growing evidence of the influence of this line of thought. At the same time there is a growing body of work that has raised fundamental questions about the feasibility of the ...... hiện toàn bộ