Theories of Bildung and growth : connections and controversies between continental educational thinking and American pragmatism / / edited by Pauli Siljander, Ari Kivelä, Ari Sutinen.

Continental philosophy of education and North American educational thinking are two traditions of their own, yet it is fruitful to compare for similarities and differences between the two and thus generate interest in a mutual dialogue and exchange between European and North American of philosophy o...

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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (317 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Pauli Siljander , Ari Kivelä and Ari Sutinen
  • Introduction / Pauli Siljander and Ari Sutinen
  • Signs of Reality / Eetu Pikkarainen
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Alienation, Bildung and Education / Kimmo Kontio
  • The Search for the Term Bildung in the German Classic / Dietrich Hoffmann
  • From Immanuel Kant to Johann Gottlieb Fichte – Concept of Education and German Idealism / Ari Kivelä
  • Educability and Bildung in Herbart’s Theory of Education / Pauli Siljander
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Contribution to a Theory of Bildung / Franz-Michael Konrad
  • Theodor W. Adorno – Education as Social Critique / Krassimir Stojanov
  • What is Bildung? or: Why Pädagogik Cannot Get Away From the Concept of Bildung / Rebekka Horlacher
  • The German Idea of Bildung and the Anti-Western Ideology / Daniel Tröhler
  • Some Things Never Change: The Invention of Humboldt in Western Higher Education Systems / Anne Rohstock
  • Emersonian Self-Culture and Individual Growth: The American Appropriation of Bildung / Heikki A. Kovalainen
  • Horace Mann on Growth, The Pedagogical Method and Public School / Ari Sutinen
  • William James’s Educational Will to Believe / Sami Pihlström and Ari Sutinen
  • The Origins and Educational Significance of John Dewey’s Philosophy / Hannu Juuso
  • George Herbert Mead: Formation Through Communication / Gert Biesta
  • Experiencing Growth as a Natural Phenomenon: John Dewey’s Philosophy and the Bildung Tradition / Lauri Väkevä
  • Dewey’s Progressive Education, Experience and Instrumental Pragmatism with Particular Reference to the Concept of Bildung / Hein Retter
  • Between Bildung and Growth: Connections and Controversies / Ari Kivelä , Pauli Siljander and Ari Sutinen
  • Author Descriptions / Pauli Siljander , Ari Kivelä and Ari Sutinen.