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Oct 24, 2021 · Although most scientists and students of science may not be convinced about the utility of philosophy, there is a growing demand for philosophy in science education. Footnote 1 The initiative has for the most part come from outside the scientific community, for example the university administration and policy makers.
- Ragnar Fjelland
- ragnar.fjelland@uib.no
- 2021
science. With the current crisis in science teaching, there are encouraging signs that more attention is being paid to this tradition. What is required is much greater collaboration between philosophers, historians, and science educators, particularly in the training of teachers. It is thirty years since the last major reforms of science education.
Jul 26, 2018 · However, the differences in focus and choice of content still stand. 5. This conflation between “teaching philosophy” and “teaching the history of philosophy” is sometimes an unconsidered choice, following on from “what has always been done”. However, it can also be derived from a deliberate, well-founded approach.
- Ana C. Couló
- 2018
Jun 2, 2008 · Philosophy of education is the branch of applied or practical philosophy concerned with the nature and aims of education and the philosophical problems arising from educational theory and practice. Because that practice is ubiquitous in and across human societies, its social and individual manifestations so varied, and its influence so profound ...
- Harvey Siegel, D.C. Phillips, Eamonn Callan
- 1997
This chapter provides a brief history of both eastern and western educational philosophies, briefly tackles the difference between morality and ethics, and concludes by discussing some of the major educational philosophies and educational philosophers of note.
Harvey Siegel is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of many papers in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of education, and of Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism (1987), Educating Reason: Rationality, Critical Thinking, and Education (1988), and Rationality Redeemed?
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