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Book Synopsis Critical Rationalism and Educational Discourse by : Gerhard Zecha
Download or read book Critical Rationalism and Educational Discourse written by Gerhard Zecha and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Rationalism has become an influential philosophy in many areas including a great number of scientific disciplines. Yet only few studies have been devoted to the role of the philosophy of Sir Karl Popper in the vast field of education. This volume undertakes to fill this gap. Leading scholars in the educational science and in the philosophy of education have critically written for this volume in an attempt to elaborate Popper's methodological and socio-political views and confront them with a globally relevant spectrum of scientific objectives and cultural values. Among the topics discussed are moral values, education for freedom and its consequences for the student, and the critical attitude in political education. Attention is also paid to the historiography of this significant philosophical movement. Regarding pedagogical research, the empirical paradigm, the falsificatory approach to educational research, the complex relationship between educational theory and practice as well as the problem of value-neutrality in educational science are objects of critical analysis.
Book Synopsis Critical Rationalism and Educational Discourse by : Zecha
Download or read book Critical Rationalism and Educational Discourse written by Zecha and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Rationalism has become an influential philosophy in many areas including a great number of scientific disciplines. Yet only few studies have been devoted to the role of the philosophy of Sir Karl Popper in the vast field of education. This volume undertakes to fill this gap. Leading scholars in the educational science and in the philosophy of education have critically written for this volume in an attempt to elaborate Popper's methodological and socio-political views and confront them with a globally relevant spectrum of scientific objectives and cultural values. Among the topics discussed are moral values, education for freedom and its consequences for the student, and the critical attitude in political education. Attention is also paid to the historiography of this significant philosophical movement. Regarding pedagogical research, the empirical paradigm, the falsificatory approach to educational research, the complex relationship between educational theory and practice as well as the problem of value-neutrality in educational science are objects of critical analysis.
Book Synopsis Closed Education in the Open Society by : Chen Yehezkely
Download or read book Closed Education in the Open Society written by Chen Yehezkely and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Giving Our Children the Benefit of the Doubt -- Back to Basics -- The Quest for the Good Society -- The Quest for the Good Education -- Closed Education in the Open Society -- The Kibbutz: A Closed Open Society -- Between Kibbutz and Kibbutz Education -- Faith -- The Ethical Dimension -- The Critical Approach -- The Answer from Liberalism -- The Benefits of Doubt: All That We Truly Have -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Book Synopsis Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society by : Chi-Ming Lam
Download or read book Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society written by Chi-Ming Lam and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to develop a theory and practice of education from Karl Popper’s non-justificationist philosophy for promoting an open society. Specifically, the book is designed to develop an educational programme for fostering critical thinking in children, particularly when they are involved in group discussion.The study conducted an experiment to assess the effectiveness of Matthew Lipman’s Philosophy for Children (P4C) programme in promoting Hong Long (Chinese) children’s critical thinking. Forty-two Secondary 1 students volunteered for the experiment, from whom 28 students were randomly selected and randomly assigned to two groups of 14 each: one receiving P4C lessons and the other receiving English lessons. The students who were taught P4C were found to perform better in the reasoning test than those who were not, to be capable of discussing philosophical problems in a competent way, and to have a very positive attitude towards doing philosophy in the classroom. It was also found that P4C played a major role in developing the students’ critical thinking.Considering that the construction of children by adults as incompetent in the sense of lacking reason, maturity, or independence reinforces the traditional structure of adult authority over children in society, it runs counter to the goal of fostering critical thinking in children. As a way to return justice to childhood and to effectively promote critical thinking in children, the present study suggested reconstructing the concept of childhood, highlighting the importance of establishing a coherent public policy on promotion of agency in children and also the importance of empowering them to participate actively in research, legal, and educational institutions.
Book Synopsis Fallibilist Solutions to Institutional Problems by : John Wettersten
Download or read book Fallibilist Solutions to Institutional Problems written by John Wettersten and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Karl Popper‘s fallibilist portrayal of scientific methodology in the 1940s, critical rationalism has developed in many ways, and in many fields. However, some of these developments still leave deep and important possibilities open. One of these is the portrayal of all rational actions as social. This book elucidates the significance of this perspective in regard to psychology, political and social philosophy, the understanding of how scientists can better communicate, and strategies for better living. The importance of the social theory of rationality for psychology arises above all due to the numerous assumptions made in psychological research that rationality is strictly individualist. This is at hand, for example, in its historical portrayal and in important aspects of cognitive psychology. As shown here, these assumptions have damaging consequences for the relationship of rationality with cognitive and social psychology.
Book Synopsis Education in the Open Society - Karl Popper and Schooling by : Richard Bailey
Download or read book Education in the Open Society - Karl Popper and Schooling written by Richard Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Karl Popper, this book provides the first comprehensive examination of the educational implications of his philosophy. Critically exploring key elements of Popper’s work, his theory of knowledge, psychology of learning and politics, Richard Bailey also extrapolates an approach to teaching and learning in schools and the wider community.
Book Synopsis The Postmodern Challenge by : Bo Stråth
Download or read book The Postmodern Challenge written by Bo Stråth and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is designed to bridge a gap in the current theoretical debate about the nature, scope and relevance of postmodern perspectives in the humanist and social sciences in Eastern and Western Europe. It comprises some fifteen essays by leading historians, literary theorists and social scientists from Western and Eastern Europe and America. It has a threefold aim: firstly, to illuminate the distinctiveness of current Western and Eastern European theorizing about history and society; secondly, to reveal points of tension and disagreement, and, finally, to open up a space for a meeting of seemingly incompatible worlds
Book Synopsis Learning, Teaching and Education Research in the 21st Century by : Joanna Swann
Download or read book Learning, Teaching and Education Research in the 21st Century written by Joanna Swann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning, Teaching and Education Research in the 21st Century draws on Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and challenges widespread assumptions about learning, teaching and research that are embedded in the practices of many teachers and in the design of most education institutions worldwide. Joanna Swann argues that to promote the growth of learning we need to encourage children and adolescents to exercise and develop creativity and criticality, and that we need to provide and maintain environments in which they can safely engage in self-initiated and self-directed exploratory activity. In accessible and engaging language, the author presents philosophical arguments that support the defence and development of non-authoritarian approaches to learning and teaching that can be used by individuals and groups working in or outside state-funded schools. In particular, she provides tried-and-tested guidelines for student-initiated curricula and a problem-based methodology for professional development and action research.
Book Synopsis How Do Institutions Steer Events? by : John Wettersten
Download or read book How Do Institutions Steer Events? written by John Wettersten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of explanation in the social sciences vacillate between holism and individualism. Wettersten contends that this has been a consequence of theories of rationality which assume that rationality requires coherent theories to be shown to be true. Rejecting these traditional assumptions about rationality Wettersten claims that the traditional explanations of rationality have placed unrealistic demands on both individuals and institutions. Analysing the theories of Weber and Popper, Wettersten shows that Popper made considerable progress in the theory of rationality, but ultimately stayed too close to the ideas of Hayek, he explains how this dilemma leads to difficulties in economics, anthropology, sociology, ethics and political theory, and constructs an alternative theory that rationality is critical problem-solving in institutional contexts. Wettersten contends that 'the critical consideration of theories followed by their improvement' dispenses with the need for justification and sees rationality as a social phenomena with an institutional basis. The main social advantages this view offers is that the degree of rationality individuals achieve may be increased by institutional reform without moralizing and that we can explain how institutions steer events insofar as we understand how they determine the problems which individuals seek to solve. It is argued that the central moral advantage of this view is that rationality is shown to be Spinozistic in the sense that it is natural and furthers morality and peace of mind.
Book Synopsis The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi by : Ronald Swartz
Download or read book The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi written by Ronald Swartz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Agassi is known primarily among fellow academics as an exemplary historian and philosopher of science; an ardent critic and disciple of Karl Popper; a critical admirer of the work of Michael Polanyi; and a Socratic fly with the “sting of a bee” for all those who wear the intellectual fashions of the day. To most of Agassi’s students he is known primarily as an exemplary model of the Socratic teacher. The question of most urgency for educators today who care about the intellectual development of students is: How do we make ready our educational institutions for more Socratic teachers? The philosophical or theoretical question is: Why do we want Socratic teachers? In outline, of the many of Agassi’s educational essays selected for this book, Agassi answers those questions: authoritarianism (or anti-democracy) blocks the democratic reform of educational institutions where Socratic teachers and students could find a safe haven; and, Socratic teaching is the main anti-dote to authoritarianism. The removal of authoritarianism from education also removes the hazard that education has become to students; to their happiness, creativity, and dignity as autonomous individuals.
Book Synopsis Improving Education by : Joanna Swann
Download or read book Improving Education written by Joanna Swann and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulated by late-1990s debate in the UK on quality, effectiveness and usefulness of educational research (reports by OFSTED, DFEE and NFER), this book shows how to improve research, combining principles and practice, and offers case studies from primary, secondary, tertiary and adult sectors>
Book Synopsis Combining Methods In Educational And Social Research by : Gorard, Stephen
Download or read book Combining Methods In Educational And Social Research written by Gorard, Stephen and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a guide to mixing or combining methods in educational and social research and covers complex interventions, Bayesian approaches, new political arithmetic, triangulation, life histories and design studies.
Book Synopsis Initiating Learning by : Bosse Bergstedt
Download or read book Initiating Learning written by Bosse Bergstedt and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning processes are never at hand or evident. How we learn something is for the most part not visible for us and for others. Primarily, learning is carried out by implicit and unspoken attitudes and mindsets, as it is stimulated by more or less ungraspable former experiences. Furthermore, it is influenced by opaque actual happenings such as subtexts of a spoken text, by forms of bodily communication and interaction and by the material conditions of learning processes and their limitations. Thus, learning cannot be reduced to its visible side such as its tasks, to the conscious motives and to forms of controlling it. When looking at learning only as an explicit process, its taciturnity and, by this, the real challenges of educating, teaching and learning get out of sight. Therefore, the endeavor to initiate learning cannot but deal with its explicit as well with its tacit aspects.
Book Synopsis Postpositivism and Educational Research by : Denis Charles Phillips
Download or read book Postpositivism and Educational Research written by Denis Charles Phillips and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents in a forthright and lively way, an account of the philosophical position generally identified as Postpositivistic that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. The discussion throughout is informed by recent developments in philosophy of science. This book argues that, while there is much to be learned from recent critiques regarding truth in research, traditional scientific values and assumptions are not outmoded. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Book Synopsis Values Education and Lifelong Learning by : David N. Aspin
Download or read book Values Education and Lifelong Learning written by David N. Aspin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the nature, theory and practices of the ideas of values education and lifelong learning. Each chapter in this book is written in an accessible style by an international expert in the field. The book tackles the task of identifying, analyzing and addressing the key problems, topics and issues relevant to education and Lifelong Learning.
Book Synopsis Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge by : Michael Segre
Download or read book Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge written by Michael Segre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensions between the aims of higher education and those of science, in the hope of contributing to improving the contemporary university. A helpful tool in analyzing these intellectual and social tensions is Karl Popper's philosophy of science demarcating science and its social context. Popper defines a society that encourages criticism as "open," and argues convincingly that an open society is the most appropriate one for the growth of science. A "closed society," on the other hand, is a tribal and dogmatic society. Despite being the universal home of science today, the university, as an institution that is thousands of years old, carries traces of different past cultural, social, and educational traditions. The book argues that, by and large, the university was, and still is, a closed society and does not serve the best interests of the development of science and of students' education.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Popper by : Jeremy Shearmur
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Popper written by Jeremy Shearmur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.
