Regenerating the Philosophy of Education

by Kincheloe, Joe L.; Hewitt, Randall; Steinberg, Shirley R.

• ISBN13: 9781433104312
• ISBN10: 1433104318
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-11
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Joe L. Kincheloe and Randall Hewitt have gathered an impressive and scholarly group of authors who argue for the continuing importance of the philosophy of education. Reviving the notion that philosophy is an essential foundation in the study of and research of education, the authors in this volume directly confront the evisceration of the topic by those who are interested in commercializing learning. Contrary to the current shift away from foundations courses, this volume proves that pre-service teachers need an intense awareness of the subjects that comprise the core of their knowledge. Philosophy of education is central to this concept. Regenerating the Philosophy of Education is essential reading for all undergraduate and graduate students in schools of education. It also is an excellent resource for classroom usage.

Author Biography

Joe L. Kincheloe (1950-2008) was the author of over 55 books and hundreds of articles. His most recent book was Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy. His research/teaching involved devising and engaging students in new, more intellectually rigorous and socially just ways of analyzing and researching education. He developed an evolving notion of criticality that constructed innovative ways to cultivate the intellect as it worked in anti-oppressive and affectively engaging ways. With Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe founded the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, which aims to improve the contribution that education makes to social justice and the democratic quality of people's lives. Randall Hewitt is Associate Professor in the School of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership at the University of Central Florida. Hewitt's current research focuses on the critical sense of the American pragmatist, social reconstructionist traditions, and on the art of democratic pedagogy. He is the author of Dewey and Power: Renewing the Democratic Faith.

Table of Contents

A Preface	p. ix
What Happened to Soul?
The Philosophical Soul: Where Did It Come From? Where Did It Go?	p. 3
Eyes of the Education Faculty: Derrida, Philosophy, and Teacher Education in the Postmodern University	p. 11
Lost Soul: The Eradication of Philosophy from Colleges of Education	p. 25
ôItÆs Just the Way Things Are:ö The Lamentable Erosion of Philosophy in Teacher Education	p. 35
The Practitioner Has No Clothes: Resisting Practice Divorced from Philosophy in Teacher Education and the Classroom	p. 43
After Socrates: Community of Philosophical Inquiry and the New World Order	p. 55
(Re)placing: Foundations in Education: Politics of Survival in Conservative Times	p. 69
Vocational Education and the Continuing Struggle for Critical Democratic Pedagogy	p. 87
Indigenous Knowledge and the Challege for Rethinking Conventional Educational Philosophy: A Ghanaian Case Study	p. 97
The Soul: Where Will It Go?
No Room for Wonder	p. 115
Philosophy Applied to Education, Revisited	p. 127
Cultivating Unique Potential in Schools: Revisioning Democratic Teacher Education	p. 141
Pluralism and Praxis: Philosophy of Education for Teachers	p. 157
Taking Teacher Education into Alien Terrain: The Future of Educational Theorizing	p. 173
On the Importance of Philosophy to the Study of Teachers	p. 187
Philosophy of Education: Looking Back to the Crossroads and Forward to the Possibilities	p. 199
Education, Philosophy, and the Cultivation of Humanity	p. 209
A Critical Complex Epistemology of Practice	p. 219
The Southern Epistemology	p. 231
Soul	p. 237
Contributors	p. 239
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