Philosophy of Education

EDPH2016/ED20P: Second Semester 2004/5

Week 2 Philosophy of Education: Its Territory and Topics

I have some background material in a text written some years ago for a Distance Education programme. The following link will allow you to find all of the material:
http://cavehill.uwi.edu/bnccde/epb/stepsintro.html.

For now I'd recommend you look at the introduction and preliminaries, and the long section on education which will be relevant to the following week as well.

Other reading may include:

Hamm, C. Philosophical Issues in Education,  Chapters 1-3

Week 3 Education and schooling

Patrick Suppes, "The Aims of Education," Philosophy of Education Yearbook, 1995.
Nel Noddings, "Response to Suppes," Philosophy of Education Yearbook, 1995.
A. N. Whitehead, The Aims of Education and other essays, chapter 1.

Hamm, C. Philosophical Issues in Education, Chapters 4, 10

Winch, C. The Philosophy of Human Learning,  Chapter 7

Week 4 Against definitions

See my notes on concepts.

Week 5 Teaching and learning

In my text: http://cavehill.uwi.edu/bnccde/epb/stepstl.html

And for something on indoctrination.

Hamm, C. Philosophical Issues in Education, Chapter 7

Winch, C. The Philosophy of Human Learning, Chapters 8-9

Week 6 Knowledge

I have some introductory material in my little book, Do Teachers Care about Truth?

Hamm, C. Philosophical Issues in Education,  Chapter 5

I have some brief notes here.

Week 7 Imagination

See the entry from the Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind; the same author, N.J.T. Thomas, has an article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on mental imagery, with an enormous bibliography.  There is even more at his homepage.

Week 8 Emotions

Peter Railton, "Emotions and Rationality"

Martha Nussbaum, "Morality and Emotions" 

I have posted very sketchy notes here.  They lead into the next topic.

Week 9 Morality

There is a chapter that is relevant in Do Teachers Care about Truth?

Hamm, C. Philosophical Issues in Education, Chapter 9

Week 10 Opportunity

Week 11 Political education for democracy

I have a brief note here.

Week 12 Identity

I have a couple of short conference papers: 'Liberalism and Education in a Multicultural Context' and 'Creolisation, syncretism, and multiculturalism'.  I also have a book chapter (without references) that is based on some of this material (a Word file).

Week 13 Revision

Here I indicate the general topic for the project and the chapters of Rorty's collection that are most directly relevant.  I have added the students in each group - if you haven't yet chosen a group please do so quickly and let me know.

Week 5  Augustine - Rorty 5, 6, and 9 [Group full]

Juliana Persaud; Dawn Hyland; Kimberlee Hinds; Mishaka Skeete

Week 6 Vienna Circle and other modern views - Rorty 29, 30

Cindy Phoenix; Liza Simmons; Lisa Thomas

Week 7 Hobbes - Rorty 10, and 11 [Group full]

Sherry-Ann Sargeant; Althea Carrington; Simone Cobham; Leandréa Wood

Week 8 Spinoza - Rorty 12 and 23 [Group full]

Sharone Annel; Gillian Best; Donna Linton; Princess Watson

Week 9 Hume, Rousseau and Kant on moral education - Rorty 17, 18, and 19

Carlotta Preece; Elizabeth Belgrave; Kerry Bailey

Week 10  German ideas on moral education - Rorty 21, 22, and 26 [Group full]

Cecil Charles; Addison Thomas; Mary Noel; Juanne Nurse; Kimmelle Forte

Week 11  Education and politics - Rorty 16, 20, and 27 [Group full]

Cyrilline Stuart; Natasha Pierre; Wesley Elcock; Donn Knight

Week 12 Mill and liberalism - Rorty 24, 33, and contrast 31, and 32 [Group full]

Yvette Hunte; Nzingha Nyhathu, Jean Trotman, Claudette Moseley-Clarke

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Ed Brandon (January 2005)

Revised 15 April 2005