Contemporary Philosophy of Education

Leading Voices from the Field
Herausgegeben:Burch, Kerry T.; Sassone, Leslie A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together some of the most influential contemporary voices within the intellectual tradition of philosophy of education, each a recipient of the James and Helen Merritt Award for Distinguished Service to the discipline. The book offers readers a rich tapestry of perspectives that both honors the field's intellectual heritage and charts new territories for exploration. The contributors engage with questions of global responsibility, equity, spiritual growth, democratic renewal, and technological change all while maintaining the philosophical rigor that has characterized this intellectual tradition since its inception. As educational systems worldwide face unprecedented challenges and transformations, these essays provide essential theoretical and philosophical frameworks for examining the fundamental questions that lie at the intersection of philosophy and educational practice.

Produktdetails

• The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89579129
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm
• ISBN-13: 9783032100313
• ISBN-10: 3032100313
• Artikelnr.: 75514333

Autorenporträt

Kerry T. Burch is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of Eros as the Educational Principle of Democracy, Democratic Transformations: Eight Conflicts in the Negotiation of American Identity, and Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational Purpose. He is currently co-editing a volume on select writings of George S. Counts. Leslie A. Sassone is Associate Professor Emerita of Philosophy of Education at Northern Illinois University, USA. She is the author of The Process of Becoming: A democratic Nietzschean Pedagogy for Individualization.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Situating Philosophy of Education Within the (Perennially)
Perilous Present.- 1. How Do We Fight for Democracy in a Post-Truth
Infosphere?.- 2. Democracy and Education in an Age of Spectacle.- 3.
Liberal Education and Global Responsibility.- Section 2: Philosophy As
Education: Inquiry, Dialogue and the Narrative Imagination.- 4. Philosophy
of Education as a Form of Inquiry.- 5. Beyond the Comfort Zone, or Sallying
Forth with Don Quixote: Facing Fear with a Philosopher of Education.- 6.
Considering Philosophy for Education: A Curmudgeonly Challenge to
Commercialism, Reductionism, and the Quest for Certainty.- 7. The
Pedagogical Imperative of Pedagogical Imperatives.- Section 3: The Need for
Spiritual & Existential Adventures in Philosophy of Education.- 8.
Compassionate, Spiritual, and Creative Listening in Teaching and
Learning.- 9. The Importance of All We Do Not See.- 10. “First They Came
for Me:”… Educational Implications of AI’s Instrumentarian Power and its
Neoslavery.- 11. Learning New Connections: Philosophy of Education,
Relationality and Educational Technologies.- Section 4: The Continuing
Significance of John Dewey.- 12. John Dewey and the Education of Public
Interest.- 13. Classrooms as Dangerous Outposts? Arendt and Dewey on the
Crisis of Teacher Authority.- 14. Teaching Hope and Reviving
Democracy.- Section 5: On Bringing the Philosophic Spirit to the Nation’s
Youth.- 15. Does Teaching Children Philosophy Educate Them? Some Anti
Platonic Reflections on Doing Philosophy with Young People.- 16. Maria
Montessori: Education for Peace.- 17. What Youth Can Do: Philosophy and
Political Action.- 18. Never Too Young for a Liberal Education:
Philosophizing with Children – Past, Present, and Future.