K12 Education As a Hermeneutic Adventurous Endeavor - Toward an Educational Way of Thinking

List of contents

1. An Educational Way of Thinking?

2. Late-Modern Instrumental Approach to Education

3. Analysis of Instrumentalism 4. From Social Servant to Agent for Humanity: An Adventurous Education

5. Basic Human Features: Towards Meaning Making as Educational Goal

6. An Educational Goal of Examining the Meaning of Being Human

7. Towards a Sovereign Education

8. Implications for Selected Areas

9. Conclusion: From Vision to Reality

About the author

Doron Yosef-Hassidim is a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Summary

Offering conceptual and pragmatic frameworks to limit political influence on schooling, the author proposes a new hermeneutical structure that restores education’s agency and separates it from external social forces, and provides the foundation for regarding K-12 education as a sovereign social sphere in its own right.

Product details

• Authors: Doron Yosef-Hassidim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367889357
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88935-7
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational strategies and policy