Philosophical Documents in Education

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

Edition:

2nd

ISBN13:

9780801333163

ISBN10:

0801333164

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2000

Publisher(s):

Allyn & Bacon

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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.

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

(2)

Socrates and Plato

(12)

Time Line for Socrates

(1)

Time Line for Plato

(1)

Introduction

(3)

Note

(1)

From Plato's Apology (ca. 399 BC)

(2)

From Plato's The Republic (ca. 366 BC)

(6)

Book VI

(2)

Book VII

(2)

Questions

(2)

Aristotle

(14)

Time Line for Aristotle

(1)

Time Line of His Writings

(1)

Introduction

(3)

Notes

(1)

From Nicomachean Ethics (ca. 330 BC)

(7)

Book I

(2)

Book II

(2)

Book X

(3)

Questions

(3)

St. Augustine

(10)

Time Line for St. Augustine

(1)

Introduction

(3)

From Confessions (ca. 400)

(2)

Book I

(1)

Book III

(2)

From Concerning the Teacher (ca. 389)

(4)

Internal Light, Internal Truth

(2)

Words Do Not Always Have the Power Even to Reveal the Mind of the Speaker

(1)

Christ Teaches within the Mind. Man's Words Are External, and Serve Only to Give Reminders

(1)

Questions

(1)

Erasmus

(12)

Time Line for Erasmus

(1)

Introduction

(3)

Notes

(1)

From The Praise of Folly (1509)

(2)

Letter from Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten (1516)

(2)

From ``On the Right Method of Instruction'' (1518)

(1)

Thought and Expression Form the Two-Fold Material of Instruction

(1)

Expression Claims the First Place in Point of Time. Both the Greek and Latin Languages Needful to the Educated Man

(1)

The Right Method of Acquiring Grammar Rests upon Reading and Not upon Definitions and Rules

(1)

Questions

(3)

John Locke

(10)

Time Line for Locke

(1)

Introduction

(3)

Notes

(1)

From Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

(3)

Questions

(3)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(12)

Time Line for Rousseau

(1)

Introduction

(3)

From Emile (1762)

(6)

Questions

(2)

William James

(14)

Time Line for James

(1)

Introduction

(2)

From Talks to Teachers (1899)

(5)

``On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings''

(5)

From Pragmatism (1906)

(4)

``What Pragmatism Means''

(4)

Questions

(2)

John Dewey

(30)

Time Line for Dewey

(1)

Introduction

(4)

Notes

(1)

``My Pedagogic Creed'' (1897)

(8)

What Education Is

(2)

What the School Is

(2)

The Subject-Matter of Education

(1)

The Nature of Method

(2)

The School and Social Progress

(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

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