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This book develops students' ability to philosophise and learn about philosophy and education at a micro and macro level. It challenges students to use philosophy as a tool and as a set of theories within education, and to develop solutions to problems as they occur within practice.
List of contents
1.Introduction: philosophy and education 2.Socrates for Teachers 3.Philosophy with Children and Self-determination in Education 4.Philosophy in Islam and its Limit on teaching Reason in Humanities 5.Children's Epistemic Rights and Hermeneutical Marginalisation in Schools 6.Consciousness, Physicalism and Vocational Education 7.Emotion and Effective Learning 8.The Social, the Natural and the Educational 9 The Teacher-Student Relationship: An Existential Approach 10 Educational Phenomenology: Is there a need and space for such a pursuit? 11 Making Sense of it all?
About the author
Tom Feldges is a lecturer at the University Centre North Lindsey and a research associate at the Institute for Applied Ethics at the University of Hull, UK. He is a member of the executive board of the British Education Studies Association (BESA), as well as a member of the editorial and review board for the journal
Educational Futures.
Summary
This book develops students’ ability to philosophise and learn about philosophy and education at a micro and macro level. It challenges students to use philosophy as a tool and as a set of theories within education, and to develop solutions to problems as they occur within practice.
