Pragmatist Philosophy for Critical Knowledge, Learning and Consciousness

Dr Neil Hooley is Honorary Fellow at College of Arts and Education, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He has interests in social justice and democratic processes, pragmatist philosophy of education, critical theory and participatory action research. He supports respect, recognition and reconciliation between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Australia.

• Part I: Philosophy as lived experience 1. Acting, thinking, changing the world 2. Living and learning with science and humanities Part II: Philosophy as educational experience 3. Philosophical dilemma 1: schooling and child/state interests 4. Philosophical dilemma 2: tradition and identification of knowledge/content 5. Philosophical dilemma 3: curriculum and dialogue/language connections 6. Philosophical dilemma 4: teaching and transmission/inquiry options 7. Philosophical dilemma 5: assessment and the perplexity of knowing/not knowing 8. Philosophical dilemma 6: learning and the schism between epistemology/sociology 9. Philosophical dilemma 7: society and the significance of subjectivity/objectivity 10. Philosophical dilemma 8: professionalism and the ethical agitation of ought/is Part III: Philosophy as critical experience and critique 11. Practice-theorising, reviewing concepts of experience, thought and values 12. Critical Praxis Bricolage, from Dewey to Nietzsche and Wittgenstein