Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Education and Conversation

Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy

Av David Bakhurst, Paul Fairfield

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Since Michael Oakeshott spoke of education as initiation into ‘the conversation of mankind’ more than fifty years ago, the idea has inspired a diverse array of thinkers and continues to be invoked today by those seeking to resist the influence of managerialism and narrow instrumentalism in educational policy and practice.Education and Conversation draws together papers written by scholars from both the analytic and continental philosophical traditions to offer a variety of perspectives on the implications of Oakeshott’s educational ideas. The metaphor of the conversation of mankind is explored, together with the roots of Oakeshott’s thinking in his early philosophical work, the relevance of his ideas to the concept of Bildung, and the significance of his political conservatism in evaluating the seemingly progressive potential of his educational ideas. In addition, concepts prominent in Oakeshott’s thought are taken up and brought to bear on contemporary philosophical discussions about education, learning and development, including the nature of initiation, the phenomenology of listening, and the value of the liberal arts tradition.Education and Conversation shows how the idea of conversation illuminates both the character and the ends of education, yielding insight into the scope and limits of the philosophy of education and the character of philosophical inquiry more generally.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2016-05-19
Mått: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt: 540 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 256
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781472584335

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Pedagogisk teori och filosofi

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David Bakhurst is Charlton Professor of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Canada, and a Visiting Professor at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the author, among other works, of The Formation of Reason, and editor of The Social Self (with C. Sypnowich), Jerome Bruner (with S. Shanker) and Thinking about Reasons (with B. Hooker and M. O. Little).Paul Fairfield is Professor of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Canada. He is the author of, among other works, Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted, Education After Dewey, and editor of Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics and John Dewey and Continental Philosophy.

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Drawing together leading figures from philosophy and education, Bakhurst and Fairfield’s Education and Conversation positions Oakeshott’s work within a contemporary context, offering not only an important contribution to the understanding of Oakeshott’s own thinking, but also showing why his work remains relevant today. The conversational vision that Oakeshott enunciates, and upon which Bakhurst and Fairfield’s contributors elaborate, provides a compelling alternative to the unthinking instrumentalism and reductionism that seems currently to hold sway in business, governmental, and even in many educational circles. This is a valuable book on an important theme.

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