Civil Society, Education and Human Formation: Philosophy's Role in a Renewed Understanding of Education

ISBN-13: 9780367595258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņs

Opis

Education has been widely criticised as being too narrowly focused on skills, capacities and the transference of knowledge that can be used in the workplace.As a result of the dominance of economic rationalism and neo-liberalism, it has become commodified and marketed to potential customers. As a consequence, students have become consumers of an

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction Jānis T. Ozoliņš

1 Democracy, Civil Society and Education Jānis T. Ozoliņš

2 Do we need a Catholic Philosophy of Education? William Sweet

3 Confucian Secular Formation and Catholic Education: (Or the Spiritual Education of the Jun Zi) Alfredo Co

4 Education and Human Formation: A Freirean Perspective Peter Roberts

5 Holistic Formation in Asia Noel Sheth

6 MacIntyre, Rationality and Universities Steven Stolz

7 Values as a Basis for Human Education – Personalistic Approach Wladyslaw Zuziak

8 The Promise and Risk of the University: Secular Education in Paul Ricoeur Jecko Bello

9 Teleological Pragmatism: A MacIntyre-Shaped University Education Philip Matthews

10 Values Education and Christological Personhood: Philosophical and Practical Implications Renee Kohler-Ryan and Sandy Lynch

11 Education towards Critical Consciousness and Emancipation: Adorno’s Critique of Halbbildung and the Tension between Formation and Conformation Ranier Carlo V. Abengaña

12 Contestation of the ends of Higher Education and Philosophy John G. Quilter

13 "The Confessing Animal": Michel Foucault and the Making of a Responsible Individual Wendyl Luna

O autorze

Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš, M.Sc., Ph.D., Dip. Ed. (Melbourne), G. Dip. Ed. Admin. (Deakin), FHERDSA, FPESA, FACE, Foreign Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, is Professor of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University and permanent Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia. His teaching and research interests include eastern philosophy, metaphysics of Aquinas, applied ethics and bioethics, social and political philosophy and the philosophy of education.