Practicing Pragmatism Through Progressive Pedagogies

Author : Susan Jean Jean Mayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003818465

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Practicing Pragmatism through Progressive Pedagogies by Susan Jean Jean Mayer Pdf

This book contributes to the contemporary revival of pragmatism as a practical and ultimately, as Mayer argues, necessary philosophical stance within democratic schools. Given that pragmatism addresses the question of how people can move forward in the absence of transcendent Truth, the author shows how pragmatism also—and not incidentally—provides grounds for pluralistic democratic societies to move forward in the absence of shared belief systems. Weaving together philosophical analysis and classroom discourse research, Mayer explores the relationships among pragmatism, progressive educational theory, and democratic knowledge construction processes and their implications for enacting progressive educational practices in schools. Several original, research-based heuristics that can serve in reliably identifying, studying, and orchestrating distinctively democratic knowledge construction processes are presented. The importance of granting all students a share of interpretive authority is also emphasized. For in learning to observe and reflect on one’s own terms, attend closely to the observations and interpretations of one’s peers, and reason collaboratively in a transparent and principled manner, young people are enculturated into essential democratic values, commitments, and practices. This book is written for a general audience and is intended for all those concerned with strengthening the democratic character of schools and societies. It is likely to appeal to scholars, researchers, and practitioners with interests in philosophy and classroom discourse and curriculum studies, as well as philosophers of education and the social sciences more broadly.

Author : Neil Hooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000218541

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Constructing Pragmatist Knowledge by Neil Hooley Pdf

Constructing Pragmatist Knowledge reintroduces an explicit and systematic philosophical approach to education through American Pragmatism, expanding and detailing the practice of pragmatism itself for practitioners across various fields of social action. While a number of theorists are referenced, it focuses on the work of the original pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead and Jane Addams. It is written in a narrative style and connects personal and professional experience of the author with philosophical description, analysis and explanation. Major themes of pragmatism are encountered throughout involving knowledge, experience, inquiry, social acts, dialectic and contradiction, giving rise to human constructs of values, moral conduct and bricolage. Reintroducing pragmatism and epistemology as the focus of teaching and learning heralds revolutionary and democratic change for education systems worldwide and corrects neoliberal tendencies that impose anti-educational ideological, economic and political distortions. This book will be of interest to academics, graduate students, teachers and pre-service teachers, policy makers and researchers in education, philosophy, sociology and epistemology.

Author : Biesta,Burbules
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780585483122

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Pragmatism and Educational Research by Biesta,Burbules Pdf

This volume offers an overview of the pragmatic understanding of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge, and its implications for the conduct of educational research. Pragmatism and Educational Research focuses primarily on the work of John Dewey, and examines the relationship between pragmatism and educational research both in relation to research methodology and to a pragmatic educational theory. Biesta and Burbules provide examples of characteristic research questions and research methods and approaches, as informed by a pragmatist outlook. Further, they argue that the major benefit of a pragmatic approach to educational research lies in the possibility of promoting intelligent and reflective action by educational practitioners.

Author : Charles L. Lowery,Patrick M. Jenlink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004405325

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The Handbook of Dewey’s Educational Theory and Practice by Charles L. Lowery,Patrick M. Jenlink Pdf

The Handbook of Dewey’s Educational Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive, accessible, richly theoretical yet practical guide to the educational theories, ideals, and pragmatic implications of the work of John Dewey, America’s preeminent philosopher of education.

Author : Thomas S. Poetter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040095485

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Curriculum Fragments by Thomas S. Poetter Pdf

This book builds upon Louise Berman’s late 20th-century framing of life processes to inform school curriculum, by proposing a new curriculum project that extends and reframes Berman in and beyond schooling. Using the well-established curriculum theorizing method, currere, the author focuses on seven life processes, including knowing, loving, losing, growing, forgiving, relating, and hoping. Each of these is approached using currere-oriented, autobiographical fragments – stories from the author’s own lived experiences in education and life – that illuminate the educational, curricular, and pedagogical possibilities of each of the seven processes using past, present, and future perspectives, which the author calls curriculum fragments. These curriculum fragments are tied to historical and contemporary curriculum theorizing and educational theory and practice, in order to suggest considerations for movement for the reader, scholar, educator, and leader. It ultimately asks whether humanity can create a joyful, beautiful, and just curriculum of life for each and every person through schooling and beyond, and consequently, a better world built on love. Focusing on real-life experiences in school and life that have educational implications and that can inform the curriculum, the field of curriculum studies, and the act of curriculum theorizing, this book will appeal to curriculum scholars interested in using currere, understanding patterns of use, participating in the production of curriculum and educational knowledge in the field, and perceiving and using curriculum theorizing as an integral part of their daily work.

Author : James P. Burns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003830719

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Curriculum and the Problem of Violence by James P. Burns Pdf

This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence, in the US and internationally, through the lens of curriculum theory. It explores a constellation of problems including war, authoritarianism, post-truth, social disparities, and increasingly onerous surveillance technologies. Arguing that the current problem of violence is neither new, nor aberrant, the author historicises the conditions of possibility that have produced the violence that presently confronts our world. Seemingly disparate issues such as ethnonationalism, authoritarian populism, Christian nationalism, neoliberalism, the proliferation of sophisticated surveillance technologies, and military Keynesianism are traced to historical features such as ‘Ur-Fascism,’ white supremacy, corporate capitalism, religious extremism, propaganda and public relations, institutional power, and the biopolitical ‘death function’ endemic in modern societies. Through a sweeping, powerful, and in-depth analysis of violence in its genealogical trajectories in global setting, it promises to re-examine curriculum in a different light and open up new possibilities. As such, the book is an important curriculum study which supports curricular ethics as articulated by Bill Pinar, such as the situation of the self socially and historically, the reconstruction of one’s understanding of the self and the world, and the potential reconstruction of the social world as more peaceful and just. Significantly, the book contributes to a retheorisation of Foucault’s biopolitics as affirmative biopower imbued with ethics of truth-seeking as a technology of the self. It will appeal to scholars and students of curriculum studies with interests in curriculum theory, authoritarianism, non-violence studies, justice studies, ethnonationalism and technologies of the self.

Author : Marla Morris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040032244

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Education at the Edge of Experience by Marla Morris Pdf

Presenting a unique exploration of education at “the edge of experience,” this book investigates how unassimilable concepts can reconceptualize education in order to grapple with what is beyond understanding. Working at the intersection of curriculum theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Morris examines how each of these “unassimilable” concepts such as lament, disavowal, breathlessness, and the Kafkaesque point toward currere as the edge of experience. It addresses what Lee Braver calls “the groundless grounds” and what Avital Ronell calls “the quicksand that is philosophy” to approach slippage and breaking points through an interdisciplinary lens. Pointing to an understanding of our largely social ills and extending William F. Pinar’s early work on currere in new and innovative directions, this book will appeal to curriculum theorists, education philosophers, psychoanalysts, and those with interests in the philosophy and theory of education.

Author : Neil Hooley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000644043

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Pragmatist Philosophy for Critical Knowledge, Learning and Consciousness by Neil Hooley Pdf

Emerging from the confusion and chaos of neoliberal economic systems around the world, this book brings together a collection of major philosophical ideas from previous centuries and applies them to the practice of education. The book argues that pragmatist philosophy is the most appropriate to guide the organisation of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. It outlines a number of philosophical dilemmas, exploring these in relation to particular philosophers and offers philosophical insights for educational practice. Further, the book proposes Critical Praxis Bricolage, an epistemological framework articulating a view that education practices are embedded in a social context. This reshapes formal education from being dominated by the market forces of neoliberalism, into a way of ethical life that respects the dignity and knowledgeability of each person and community regardless of background. Written in a narrative style, Pragmatist Philosophy for Critical Knowledge, Learning and Consciousness provides a philosophical paradigm of experience, culture and inquiry that actively connects with human interests of the everyday and with the distinctiveness of being human. This work will be of interest to researchers and higher degree students of education and philosophy of education.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416587279

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Experience & Education by John Dewey Pdf

Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. Analyzing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education, even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy, here expressed in its most essential, most readable form, predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience, on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social, both orderly and dynamic.

Author : Gibson, David,Baek, Young Kyun
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605663234

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Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments by Gibson, David,Baek, Young Kyun Pdf

Contains research and current trends used in digital simulations of teaching, surveying the uses of games and simulations in teacher education.

Author : Michael Taylor,Helmut Schreier,Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.,Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr.
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789042023420

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Pragmatism, Education, and Children by Michael Taylor,Helmut Schreier,Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.,Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr. Pdf

This book presents fourteen new essays by international scholars about the intersections between pragmatism, education, and philosophy with children. Pragmatism from its beginnings has sought a revolution in learning, and is itself a special kind of philosophy of education. What can the applications of pragmatism to pedagogy around the world teach us today?

Author : Sybil Langdon,Alaric Morland,Jennifer Laura King,Günkut Akyıldız,Oswald Penrith,Honor Blackaries,BookademyEN,Bookademy
Publisher : Bookademy
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Famous Philosophers and Their Thoughts by Sybil Langdon,Alaric Morland,Jennifer Laura King,Günkut Akyıldız,Oswald Penrith,Honor Blackaries,BookademyEN,Bookademy Pdf

Dive into the intellectual journey of renowned thinkers throughout history with "Famous Philosophers and Their Thoughts - The Development and Effects of Philosophy”. This captivating book explores the evolution of philosophical ideas and their profound impact on human thought, culture and society. From ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to contemporary figures such as Slavoj Žižek, Martha Nussbaum and Cornel West, each chapter delves into the unique insights and contributions of these influential minds. Discover how philosophical concepts have shaped our understanding of ethics, politics, metaphysics and more, making this book an essential read for anyone interested in the rich tapestry of philosophical thought.

Author : Neil Hooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317530343

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Learning at the Practice Interface by Neil Hooley Pdf

This book investigates professional practice at the interface of sociology and epistemology for progressive educational change. It suggests that orthodox sociology and sociology of education have not sufficiently analysed contemporary educational situations due primarily to the strength of the economic and educational influence of neoliberalism. In drawing upon key aspects of the work of Dewey, Freire, Bernstein and Bourdieu, a new reflexive sociology of knowledge is proposed that could potentially revolutionise public schooling and emancipate learning. This critical reconceptualisation of curriculum and teaching, as well as the democratic inclusion of all children into structures of privileged and community knowledge, opens up a new epistemological stage in the sociology of education worldwide. In confronting the contradiction between social marginalisation and educational expectations, Learning at the Practice Interface explores new approaches to education systems and knowledge production. Part A raises questions regarding knowledge, pedagogy and social justice that are central to schooling and which support values weakened by neoliberalism. These values include democracy, equity, community collaboration and deference towards knowledge and culture not dependent on wealth and status. Part B explores practical issues related to how knowledge is engaged in the school curriculum. This discussion goes to the heart of learning at the practice interface and suggests that the lack of epistemological strategies based on sociological description has created serious estrangement from school knowledge for large numbers of students. Part C discusses a critical view of knowledge in relation to research, teaching and learning and the education profession generally. The need for a new reflexive sociology of knowledge is proposed to guide educational dialogue and action such that connections can be made between progressive sociology and epistemology in the interests of all children. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers in the Sociology of Education, Teacher Education, and Education Reform.

Author : Thomas Henry Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Culture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031849875

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Pragmatism and Pedagogy by Thomas Henry Briggs Pdf

Author : Elyse A. Gonzales,Sara Reisman
Publisher : Amherst College Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781943208128

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Mobilizing Pedagogy by Elyse A. Gonzales,Sara Reisman Pdf

What is--what should be--the place of art in society? Is it merely decorative? Is it only to affirm a given set of cultural preferences? Or should it examine, challenge, even upend these norms to bring open new perspectives for those who experience what artists create? Social practice artists offer a clear and unflinching answer to this question, setting before us works intended not merely to ask questions but to propose pathways toward large societal change. In this volume, the work of two social practice artists of different generations and different social locations--Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera--are brought into creative tension by two visionary curators: Elyse A. Gonzalez of the Art, Design & Architecture Museum of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sara Reisman of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation of New York. Working together, Gonzales and Reisman bring the work of these two engaged and activist artists into dialogue, showing how art can be not merely the mirror of society but the means of making it more just, more inclusive, and more humane.