The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education

Philosophers have had ideas about education for a very long time – we can go back to Plato or Rousseau for evidence of that – and philosophical ideas, about citizenship or knowledge, ethics or autonomy, pervade educational theory and practice to this day. One of the sections in this book looks at “philosophy as education”, asking whether it is more theoria or praxis, probing the epistemological claims and role of education, wondering whether critical thinking can be creative and vice versa, and returning to Aristotle for another look at phronesis (practical knowledge) and the extent to which it is based...