13 research outputs found
Di Mascio, Anthony – The Idea of Popular Schooling In Upper Canada: Print Culture, Public Discourse, and the Demand for Education. Montreal and Kingston; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. Pp. 257.
Peter Medway, John Hardcastle, Georgina Brewis, and David Crook, English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy: Emerging Choice in London Schools, 1945-1965
History of Education Crossing the Street: Exploring the Tenuous Place of Educational History in Canadian Historiography
Campbell F. Scribner and Bryan R. Warnick, Spare the Rod: Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools
History of Education Crossing the Street: Exploring the Tenuous Place of Educational History in Canadian Historiography
The Case for Philosophical Mindedness
This essay is an extended argument for a philosophical disposition with regards to pedagogy, and an argument for all educationists, not merely a select few toiling in the academy, to seek wisdom. Engaged in vocations involving teaching and learning, we must aspire to be wise. Being a philosophically minded educationist means occupying a radical middle between opposing viewpoints and thinking critically, in action, about educational experiences. Far from stereotypical notions linking philosophy to abstract ideals of the ivory tower, we argue that being an educationist and taking this responsibility seriously means being a frontline classical philosopher—one who loves wisdom and who is willing to facilitate the birth of ideas