Tag: "education"

Of Adolescents and The Aristotle

Michael J. Brown finds assumptions challenged in his Philosophy Club.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

Randall Curren

Randall Curren is Professor of Philosophy and Education and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester, NY. His works include Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education. He is the editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, of the journal Theory and Research in Education, and also of the recently published Philosophy of Education: An Anthology. Tim Madigan talks to him.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Interview]

What is it to be a Human Knower?

Jan Derry wants to know what it is to know.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

Teaching Philosophy vs Teaching To Philosophise

Pablo Cevallos Estarellas reviews the developments that caused professional to triumph over amateur philosophy in education, and proposes a way forward.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

Philosophising About Moral Education

Graham Haydon thinks about what it is to think about moral education.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

Education for All

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Editorial]

Climbing the Real Mountain

Rebecca Glass on the importance of fables of ‘the really real world’.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

Playing Nice and Teaching Good

Carolyn Suchy-Dicey considers the dilemma of teaching moral autonomy.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Education]

The Politics of Education

Judith Suissa considers the intersection of political philosophy and philosophy of education in Alan Bennett’s new film The History Boys.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Films]

A Practical Role for Philosophy

Peter Bowden argues that it is not a choice between education or training: both are needed, and across every discipline. The problem is that the sciences are providing education as well as training, but that the departments of philosophy are not providing the training.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Learning & Teaching]