Abstract
While philosophy of education is in one sense as old as philosophy itself, it emerged as a particular specialism of educational and philosophical scholarship in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century. This article discusses the philosophical engagement with education through time, highlighting issues concerning the definition of its two key terms - philosophy and education - discussing some classics in the philosophical literature on education, in order to arrive at a sketch of the development of philosophy of education in the twentieth century.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 255-260 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080970875 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080970868 |
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| Publication status | Published - 26 Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- Analytic philosophy of education
- Education
- Educational purpose
- Educational theory
- Feminism
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of education
- Post-structuralism
- Postmodernism
- Pragmatism