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A central question in the philosophy of education concerns the aims of education, i.e. the question of why people should be educated and what goals should be pursued in the process of education. [ 8 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 14 ] This issue is highly relevant for evaluating educational practices and products by assessing how well they manage to realize ...
A highly influential anthology of Martin's articles, Changing the Educational Landscape includes her "paradigm-shifting critique of epistemological inequality in philosophy of education and its concept of the educated person as well as her conceptual analysis of hidden curriculum" (Laird, Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the ...
In this context, benevolence drives the idea of humaneness and is understood as a feeling either of love or tenderness that makes "someone willing to participate, at the level of feeling, in whatever is human." [15] Such participation entails a willingness to engage both in human suffering and joy. This was echoed in the Kantian position on ...
Constructivism in education is rooted in epistemology, a theory of knowledge concerned with the logical categories of knowledge and its justification. [3] It acknowledges that learners bring prior knowledge and experiences shaped by their social and cultural environment and that learning is a process of students "constructing" knowledge based on their experiences.
In elaborating the philosophy of Islamic education, the view of Rosnani Hashim infers from her book entitled Education Dualism in Malaysia. To her, it is a well-known principle that education is one of the means through which a particular society transmits and renews its culture and values to the next generation. [ 22 ]
Parfit makes a similar argument against average utilitarian standards. If all we care about is average happiness, we are forced to conclude that an extremely small population, say ten people, over the course of human history is the best outcome if we assume that these ten people (Adam and Eve et al.) had lives happier than we could ever imagine.
Our goal is to make a concrete contribution to the debate over which types of policies are required in order to improve the quality of Hispanic education. With that in mind, we seek to shed light on some of the relevant issues facing policymakers and the range of factors at play in forming the educational situation of Hispanics in the US.
The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for students of all ages, including those who will never attend a university. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of universal suffrage and basic human rights fell short of 20th century ...