Pragmatism, education, and children : international philosophical perspectives / / edited by Michael Taylor, Helmut Schreier and Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; 192
• TeilnehmendeR: Taylor, Michael.; Schreier, Helmut.; Ghiraldelli Jr., Paulo
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; 192.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book presents fourteen new essays by international scholars about the intersections between pragmatism, education, and philosophy with children. Pragmatism from its beginnings has sought a revolution in learning, and is itself a special kind of philosophy of education. What can the applications...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• PEIRCE’S DESIGN FOR THINKING: A PHILOSOPHICAL GIFT FOR CHILDREN / Phyllis Chiasson
• WILLIAM JAMES’S THEORY OF EDUCATION / Celal Türer
• SOME HISTORICAL NOTES ON GEORGE HERBERT MEAD’S THEORY OF EDUCATION / Jürgen Oelkers
• PRAGMATISM, TRAGEDY, AND HOPE: DEWEYAN GROWTH AND EMERSONIAN PERFECTIONIST EDUCATION / Naoko Saito
• LOGIC, INTELLIGENCE, AND EDUCATION IN DEWEY AND PIAGET / Marcus Vinicius da Cunha
• THE SACRED IN THE EVERYDAY: JOHN DEWEY ON RELIGION IN PUBLIC EDUCATION / Gordon Mitchell
• IN PURSUIT OF INTELLECTUAL HONESTY WITH CHILDREN: CHILDREN’S PHILOSOPHY IN HAMBURG’S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ENCOURAGED BY DEWEY’S IDEAS / Helmut Schreier and Kerstin Michalik
• PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN’S DEBT TO DEWEY / Matthew Lipman
• DEWEY AND LIPMAN / Rosalind Ekman Ladd
• DEWEY, LIPMAN, AND THE TRADITION OF REFLECTIVE EDUCATION / Philip Cam
• RICHARD RORTY AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES / Paulo Ghiraldelli
• ACTS OF EDUCATION: RORTY, DERRIDA, AND THE ENDS OF LITERATURE / Michael A. Peters
• THE RHETORIC TURN / Tarso Mazzotti
• NEOPRAGMATISM, PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, AND OUR FUTURE / Paulo Ghiraldelli
• ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX
• VIBS.