Philosophical Documents in Education

by Reed, Ronald F.; Johnson, Tony W.

• ISBN13: 9780801333163
• ISBN10: 0801333164
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

Philosophical Documents in Education, 2/e, masterfully argues that students can better understand and practice their profession by reading, contemplating, and discussing the great philosophic tradition in education. An edited anthology of 18 primary source materials in educational philosophy, this text provides a wide range of both historical and contemporary viewpoints.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(2)
Socrates and Plato	3	(12)
Time Line for Socrates	3	(1)
Time Line for Plato	3	(1)
Introduction	4	(3)
Note	6	(1)
From Plato's Apology (ca. 399 BC)	7	(2)
From Plato's The Republic (ca. 366 BC)	9	(6)
Book VI	9	(2)
Book VII	11	(2)
Questions	13	(2)
Aristotle	15	(14)
Time Line for Aristotle	15	(1)
Time Line of His Writings	16	(1)
Introduction	16	(3)
Notes	18	(1)
From Nicomachean Ethics (ca. 330 BC)	19	(7)
Book I	19	(2)
Book II	21	(2)
Book X	23	(3)
Questions	26	(3)
St. Augustine	29	(10)
Time Line for St. Augustine	29	(1)
Introduction	29	(3)
From Confessions (ca. 400)	32	(2)
Book I	32	(1)
Book III	32	(2)
From Concerning the Teacher (ca. 389)	34	(4)
Internal Light, Internal Truth	34	(2)
Words Do Not Always Have the Power Even to Reveal the Mind of the Speaker	36	(1)
Christ Teaches within the Mind. Man's Words Are External, and Serve Only to Give Reminders	37	(1)
Questions	38	(1)
Erasmus	39	(12)
Time Line for Erasmus	39	(1)
Introduction	40	(3)
Notes	42	(1)
From The Praise of Folly (1509)	43	(2)
Letter from Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten (1516)	45	(2)
From ``On the Right Method of Instruction'' (1518)	47	(1)
Thought and Expression Form the Two-Fold Material of Instruction	47	(1)
Expression Claims the First Place in Point of Time. Both the Greek and Latin Languages Needful to the Educated Man	47	(1)
The Right Method of Acquiring Grammar Rests upon Reading and Not upon Definitions and Rules	48	(1)
Questions	48	(3)
John Locke	51	(10)
Time Line for Locke	51	(1)
Introduction	52	(3)
Notes	54	(1)
From Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)	55	(3)
Questions	58	(3)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	61	(12)
Time Line for Rousseau	61	(1)
Introduction	62	(3)
From Emile (1762)	65	(6)
Questions	71	(2)
William James	73	(14)
Time Line for James	73	(1)
Introduction	74	(2)
From Talks to Teachers (1899)	76	(5)
``On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings''	76	(5)
From Pragmatism (1906)	81	(4)
``What Pragmatism Means''	81	(4)
Questions	85	(2)
John Dewey	87	(30)
Time Line for Dewey	87	(1)
Introduction	88	(4)
Notes	92	(1)
``My Pedagogic Creed'' (1897)	92	(8)
What Education Is	92	(2)
What the School Is	94	(2)
The Subject-Matter of Education	96	(1)
The Nature of Method	97	(2)
The School and Social Progress	99	(1)
From Democracy and Education (1916)	100	(5)
From Experience and Education (1938)	105	(10)
Questions	115	(2)
George S. Counts	117	(6)
Time Line for Counts	117	(1)
Introduction	118	(2)
From Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (1932)	120	(2)
Questions	122	(1)
Maxine Greene	123	(20)
Time Line for Greene	123	(1)
Introduction	124	(2)
Notes	126	(1)
From The Dialectic of Freedom (1988)	126	(15)
Questions	141	(2)
Jane Roland Martin	143	(28)
Time Line for Martin	143	(1)
Introduction	144	(2)
Note	146	(1)
From Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman (1985)	146	(23)
Redefining the Educational Realm	152	(6)
Educating Our Sons	158	(6)
Toward a Gender-Sensitive Ideal	164	(5)
Questions	169	(2)
Cornel West	171	(14)
Time Line for West	171	(1)
Introduction	172	(3)
Notes	175	(1)
From Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times (1993)	175	(9)
The Value of the Age of Europe	176	(1)
The End of the Age of Europe and the Rise of the United States	177	(2)
The Decolonization of the Third World	179	(1)
Economic & Social Decline	180	(1)
The Ravages of the Culture of Consumption	181	(3)
Questions	184	(1)
Paulo Freire	185	(18)
Time Line for Freire	185	(1)
Introduction	186	(2)
Notes	188	(1)
From Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1972)	188	(10)
From Letters to Cristina (1996)	198	(4)
Second Letter	198	(4)
Questions	202	(1)
Matthew Lipman	203	(24)
Time Line for Lipman	203	(1)
Introduction	204	(3)
Notes	207	(1)
``Do Elementary School Children Need Philosophy?'' (1994)	207	(5)
From Philosophy Goes to School (1988)	212	(9)
Did Plato Condemn Philosophy for the Young?	212	(4)
Philosophical Inquiry as the Model of Education	216	(2)
What Is It to Be Fully Educated?	218	(1)
Converting Classrooms into Communities of Inquiry	219	(2)
From Philosophy in the Classroom (1977)	221	(4)
Guiding a Classroom Discussion	221	(1)
The Role of Ideas in a Philosophical Dialogue	222	(3)
Questions	225	(2)
Gareth Matthews	227	(16)
Time Line for Matthews	227	(1)
Introduction	227	(3)
From The Philosophy of Childhood (1994)	230	(6)
A Philosopher's View of Childhood	230	(6)
From Philosophy and the Young Child (1980)	236	(5)
Puzzlement	236	(5)
Review of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Together (1985)	241	(1)
Questions	242	(1)
Nel Noddings	243	(16)
Time Line for Noddings	243	(1)
Introduction	244	(3)
Notes	247	(1)
From The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education (1992)	247	(10)
The Debate in Ethics	252	(5)
Questions	257	(2)
Kieran Egan	259	(18)
Time Line for Egan	259	(1)
Introduction	260	(3)
Notes	263	(1)
From Teaching as Story Telling (1986)	263	(12)
Introduction	263	(2)
Story Rhythm	265	(2)
Binary Opposites	267	(2)
Affective Meaning	269	(1)
Metaphors, Analogs, and Objectives	270	(4)
Conclusion	274	(1)
Questions	275	(2)
Richard Rorty	277	(10)
Time Line for Rorty	277	(1)
Introduction	278	(3)
Note	280	(1)
From Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (1991)	281	(5)
Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism	281	(5)
Questions	286	(1)
Name Index	287	(6)
Subject Index	293