Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza s moral theory. Taking Spinoza s naturalism as its point of departure, it constructs a considered account of education, taking special care to investigate the educational implications of Spinoza s psychological egoism. What emerges is a counterintuitive form of education grounded in the egoistic striving of the teacher to persevere and to flourish in existence while still catering to the ethical demands of the students and the greater community.
In providing an...
Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza s moral theory. Taking Spinoza s n...
Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called worldedness that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy. This is the idea that any one thing is constituted by all others and is, therefore, educational to the extent that it is formational. A suggested opposite of this indigenous philosophy is the metaphysics of presence, which describes the tendency in Western philosophy to privilege presence over absence. This book compares these competing philosophies and argues that, even though the metaphysics of...
Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called worldedness that sits at ...
This is the first book to explore how graphocentrism - prioritising writing over speech and eyes over ears - affects Chinese education and culture. Contemporary educational practices in China often follow the dominant Western model of phonocentrism, but Ruyu Hung demonstrates that each perspective interacts and counteracts with each other, creating a dialogue between Eastern and Western thought. Chapters explore the consonances and dissonances between the two, problematizing the educational practices of Chinese tradition and proposing a dialectical thinking of post-graphocentrism, based on...
This is the first book to explore how graphocentrism - prioritising writing over speech and eyes over ears - affects Chinese education and culture....
In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or philosophical texts can be helpful.
Drawing on the work of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov, the authors demonstrate that literature can allow us to see how reason is understood and expressed,...
In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and conse...
Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, the esteemed Israeli philosopher and educationist, passed away on the 5th of January 2012 at the Italian Hospital in Haifa. He was internationally renowned for his contributions to the fields of critical pedagogy and peace education, which spanned several decades, and remain seminal works in the philosophy of education. This book introduces and critically analyses the key socio-political ideas of Gur-Ze-ev, connecting his ideas to contemporary discourse, and reflecting on the continuing theoretical and practical relevance of his work to education. Topics of discussion...
Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, the esteemed Israeli philosopher and educationist, passed away on the 5th of January 2012 at the Italian Hospital in Haifa. He was ...
Global corporations, and the senior executives within them, have been subject to great criticism in recent times, not only because corporations hold extreme concentrations of wealth, but also because they continue to sanction staggering pay inequalities between the haves and the have-nots. At the same time, university-based business schools are conducting programmes of executive education seemingly customised to sanction these same inequalities. Heidegger and Executive Education is a piece of critical philosophy that has been written from within the business school in order to...
Global corporations, and the senior executives within them, have been subject to great criticism in recent times, not only because corporations hol...
Instead of simply following the current neoliberal mantra of proclaiming economic growth as the single most important factor for maintaining well-being, Education and Schmid's Art of Living revisits the idea of an education focused on personal development and the well-being of human beings. Drawing on philosophical ideas concerning the good life and recent research in positive psychology, Teschers argues in favour of shifting the focus in education and schooling towards a beautiful life and an art of living for today's students.
Containing a thorough...
Instead of simply following the current neoliberal mantra of proclaiming economic growth as the single most important factor for maintaining well-b...
