K-12 Education as a Hermeneutic Adventurous Endeavor

Toward an Educational Way of Thinking
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-06230-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

Considering the role of compulsory mass education and schooling in a democratic society, this book introduces an alternative vision for K-12 education as an "adventurous endeavour." Grounded in a strong theoretical framework, Yosef-Hassidim reveals the negative impact of instrumentalization of schools: when education is considered a social and political instrument, it serves dominant social forces’ interests rather than students’ or humanity as a whole. Offering conceptual and pragmatic frameworks to limit political influence on schooling, the author proposes a new hermeneutical structure that restores education’s agency and separates it from external social forces, and provides the foundation for regarding K-12 education as a sovereign social sphere in its own right.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yosef-Hassidim, Doron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An Educational Way of Thinking?

2. Late-Modern Instrumental Approach to Education

3. Analysis of Instrumentalism 4. From Social Servant to Agent for Humanity: An Adventurous Education

5. Basic Human Features: Towards Meaning Making as Educational Goal

6. An Educational Goal of Examining the Meaning of Being Human

7. Towards a Sovereign Education

8. Implications for Selected Areas

9. Conclusion: From Vision to Reality

Über Autor(innen)

Doron Yosef-Hassidim is a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.