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• Discuss the meaning of philosophy of education, • explain the unlimited scope of philosophy of education. • enumerate the various functions of philosophy of education.
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- I Introduction
- II The Question of Life's Meaning: One Or Many?
- III Relations Between Education and The Question(S) of Life's Meaning
- IV How Education May Contribute to Life's Meaning
- V Concluding Remarks
It is no coincidence that human beings are both the only creatures who not only rear their children, but also educate them, and the only ones for whom the question of life's meaning arises. Even for the most cultured nonhuman animals the question how to raise their young does not arise; the young are ‘naturally’ taught that which it is necessary to...
Even a cursory glance at the (philosophical, theological, psychological) literature on the meaning of life or meaning in life—the difference in phrasing is telling—shows that there is no single agreed-upon interpretation of the question of life's meaning, no uniquely identifiable object of investigation approached from a different angle by each of ...
So far we have spoken rather vaguely of ‘relations between education and the question of life's meaning’, without saying very much about what kinds of relations these might be. To clear up this issue is the purpose of this section. Thus, our description will be guided by the ways in which we can perceive of the relation between education and life's...
How one sees education's possible contribution to the meaning in or of people's lives not only depends on the meaning of ‘meaning’ (comprehensibility, value, or purpose), but also on one's conception of meaning and its sources (i.e. on whether one subscribes to naturalism or supernaturalism, and to subjectivism, objectivism, or a hybrid view). Espe...
Richard Peters once wrote that ‘the most important dimension of education is that in which we learn to come to terms with the pointlessness of life’, qualifying this a few pages later by suggesting that education ‘should enable [students] to grasp how they are placed in the world [and] provide them with a range of activities that give point to life...
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The second definition frames interpretation in terms of ontology (the philosophy of being and existence). In this view, interpretation is not an act of cognition, a special method, or a theory of knowledge. Interpretation, instead, characterizes how human beings naturally experience the world.
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Abstract Philosophy of education refers to the systematic process of understanding and explicating key concepts related to educational prac-tice. Analytic philosophy of education is a contemporary approach to this task and is the technique used in this book to explain key educational concepts. Keywords Prescriptive • Descriptive • Analytic ...
