Leaders in Philosophy of Education : : Intellectual Self-Portraits (Second Series) / / edited by Leonard J. Waks.

• Superior document: Leaders in Educational Studies
• HerausgeberIn: Waks, Leonard J.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed. 2014.
• Language: English
• Series: Leaders in Educational Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In the late 1950s plans were initiated to bring a higher level of professionalism to the training of educational professionals. New projects included introducing contemporary scholarship from the humanities and social sciences into colleges of education to revitalize the education knowledge base. In North America and the United Kingdom, analytical philosophers were recruited to inaugurate a ‘new philosophy of education.’ Analytical philosophy of education soon spread throughout the English speaking world. By the 1980s this analytical impulse had largely subsided. Philosophers trained in analytical philosophy and their students turned to more ambitious normative pursuits related to problems of social justice and democracy. Meanwhile, feminist philosophers opened up new issues regarding the education of women and the nature of teaching and knowing, and a new wave of pragmatist philosophers turned to issues of educational policy. By the 1990s Anglo-American philosophers of education welcomed a dialogue with counterparts in Western Europe, and the field responded to established trends in European philosophy ranging from critical theory and phenomenology to post-structuralism. New leaders emerged in philosophy of education representing all of these various strands. This volume documents the emergence of contemporary philosophy of education as seen by those spearheading these trends.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Leonard J. Waks -- Introduction: Leaders in Philosophy of Education after 1980 / Leonard J. Waks -- From Experimentalism to Existentialism / Gert Biesta -- From Existentialism to Virtuality / Megan Boler -- The Personal and the Philosophical / Nicholas C. Burbules -- My Life in Philosophy / Randall Curren -- Still Facing the Torpedo Fish / Ann Diller -- Liberalism and Education / Penny Enslin -- My Life as a Vixen / Morwenna Griffiths -- On Wonder / David T. Hansen -- An Unlikely Philosopher? / Kenneth R. Howe -- Tacking Toward the Subjective / Donna H. Kerr -- Hungry for Insubordinate Educational Wisdom / Susan Laird -- The Freedom of Paradox / Lars Løvlie -- Pedagogue and/or Philosopher? / Jan Masschelein -- An Accident Waiting to Happen / Peter Roberts -- A Kind of Spiral Thinking / Paul Smeyers -- Philosophy in Its Place / Richard Smith -- Making Sense of Moments / Barbara S. Stengel -- Learning From and Living With Life’s Rough Threads / Sharon Todd -- Afterword: A Path Forward / Leonard J. Waks.