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Sep 22, 2023 · Existentialism in education is a teaching and learning philosophy that focuses on the student’s freedom and agency to choose their future. Existentialist educators believe there is no god or higher power guiding their students.
Idealism is a school of philosophy that emphasizes that “ideas or concepts are the essence of all that is worth knowing” (Johnson et. al., 2011, p. 87). In other words, the only true reality is that of ideas. Based on the writings of Plato, this school of philosophy encourages conscious reasoning in the mind.
In education, “existentialism” loosely denotes a way of philosophizing linked with reconceptualist curriculum thought (e.g., Greene, Pinar, Grumet, Huebner, Jardine, van Manen, Willis, and Troutner).
- James Magrini
- 2012
Jun 2, 2008 · Philosophy of Education. First published Mon Jun 2, 2008; substantive revision Sun Oct 7, 2018. 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.
- Harvey Siegel, D.C. Phillips, Eamonn Callan
- 1997
Existentialism is a difficult term to define. In perhaps the most basic sense, it is a sort of meta physical first principle which holds that all mean ing is a product of direct personal experience. Existentialism at its broadest does not necessarily imply any particular concepts of value. On the other hand, most existentialist philosophers have
Troutner L., “Existentialism, Phenomenology, and the Philosophy of Education,” Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1964), pp. 118–24. Google Scholar. Morris V. C., “Detente in Educational Philosophy,” Educational Theory 15 (October 1965): 265–72. Crossref.
About this book. This volume examines Otto Friedrich Bollnow’s philosophical approach to education, which brought Heidegger’s existentialism together with other theories of what it is to be “human.”. This introduction to Bollnow's work begins with a summary of the theoretical influences that Bollnow synthesized, and goes on to outline ...
