Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Classic readings for Philosophy of Education

For my Philosophy of Education course lectures on video, readings are now posted from key philosophers to accompany several of the lectures. [All links are to PDFs.]

Idealism: Plato (the Allegory of the Cave from Republic) and Immanuel Kant (from On Education).

Realism: Aristotle (from Politics) and John Locke (from Some Thoughts concerning Education).

Pragmatism: John Dewey (from Democracy and Education).

Behaviorism: B. F. Skinner (from Beyond Freedom and Dignity).

Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre (from Existentialism Is a Humanism).

Marxism: Karl Marx (from Theses on Feuerbach and The Holy Family).

Postmodernism: Henry Giroux (from Border Pedagogy as Postmodern Resistance).

In each case, I discuss the readings in my video lectures, but nothing beats also reading the primary sources for oneself.

Philosophical Foundations of Education course

Here is the syllabus and schedule [pdf] for my graduate course this semester.

I’ll be doing a few experiments with the course this time. One is using my online lectures in Philosophy of Education as assignments for class preparation, along with reading from Howard Ozmon’s textbook. I’ll also be asking the students to read and write a critical review of Jerry Kirkpatrick’s Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism, a fine historically-informed survey of educational theory.

And in the second half of the semester I will be working with Marsha Familaro Enright, who will lead several Socratic discussions on key philosophers of education — including Plato, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, John Dewey, B. F. Skinner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, and Henry Giroux.

John Dewey on education

Stephen Hicks discusses pragmatist philosopher John Dewey’s approach to education. This is from Part 9 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course.

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Pragmatic philosophy: Evolution, skepticism, and democracy

Stephen Hicks discusses pragmatism as a philosophical system. This is from Part 9 of his Philosophy of Education course.

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John Dewey on education as socialization

John Dewey was one of the top two most influential philosophers of education in the twentieth century. Maria Montessori was the other.

Dewey’s influence has been most strongly felt in the American public school system. In America, Montessori’s influence has mostly been grassroots and in privately funded schools.

Montessori’s approach is highly individualistic and individualized. A common question arises, however, about the extent to which Dewey is a collectivist or individualist in his philosophy and his education theory, especially given his distancing himself from some “Progressive” educators who claimed to be following Dewey’s lead in implementing strongly collectivized approaches to education.

So here is some data from a key section of Dewey’s Democracy and Education (1916).

As a pragmatist, Dewey situates education biologically, in terms of life and death and the conditional, action-oriented nature of survival: “Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment” (162).

He notes that individuals come and go, as do species, thus the need for living beings to change responsively to changing conditions: “Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms” (162).

So far Dewey is setting a straightforward evolutionary biological context. Dewey was born in the same year that Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was published, and he came to intellectual maturity in a world transformed by biological thinking.

Dewey’s next step is to take social groups and not individuals as the operative unit of analysis.

Dewey introduces education in making this step: “Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life” (162). Note that education is not about equipping individuals for life. It does educate individuals, but its purpose is social continuity.

Individuals do have a role: “Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of the group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on” (162). Individuals are important — not as individuals — but as “units” who are “carriers” of the “life-experience of the group.” Individuals are vehicles through which the group lives.

Individuals are born with no knowledge or skills, so they must be “initiated into the interests, purposes, information, skill, and practices of the mature members: Otherwise the group will cease its characteristic life” (162). The end goal is the continuing of the group’s “characteristic life,” or avoiding its demise; the goal is not for the individual to find his or her own character and life.

Dewey next addresses the question of what exactly a group is. If education is about the group, we should know what we mean by “group.”

Dewey notes that group does not come into existence simply as a result of physical proximity, and he lays out a strong set of additional conditions for group existence:

“Individuals do not even compose a social group because they all work for a common end. The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community” (163).

Unpack that: For a social group to exist, there must be (1) a common end, everyone must be (2) aware of the common end, everyone must be (3) interested in the common end, and everyone must (4) act to achieve the common end.

Deweyan education, then, is centrally about the common, the group, the social. In a remark about the consequent importance of communication skills in education, Dewey states, “Consensus demands communication” (163).

con·sen·sus (kn-snss) n. 1. An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole.

Thus, in my reading, Dewey is extremely un-individualistic and highly collectivistic.
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Notes:

My page references for Dewey are to the seventh edition of Ozmon and Craver’s Philosophical Foundations of Education, the text I use in my Philosophy of Education course.

Kirkpatrick on Montessori and Dewey

Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick gave a talk at Rockford College on October 28 on “Montessori and Dewey as Educational Philosophers.” Dr. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

In the following eleven-minute interview after his talk, I speak with Dr. Kirkpatrick about the two great educational philosophers of the twentieth century, both of whom are exerting great influence in the twenty-first.

The talk was also based on Dr. Kirpatrick’s fine book Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism. His talk at Rockford College was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and this video interview is also available here at the center’s site.

More of my interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.

Fall 2009 guest speakers

The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship and the Department of Philosophy have an intellectually-stimulating line-up of guest speakers [pdf] this fall semester:

On September 16, Timothy Sandefur will be speaking on “Market Entrepreneurs and Political Entrepreneurs: Some Legal and Constitutional Issues.” Sandefur is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm based in Sacramento, California.

Jerry Kirkpatrick will be giving two talks: “The Importance of Philosophy to a Successful Business Career” on October 27 and “Montessori and Dewey as Educational Philosophers” on October 28. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business & Marketing at California State Polytechnic University

Joshua Hall will also be giving two talks on the theme of “The Dilemma of School Finance Reform,” one on October 13 and one on November 11. Hall is Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College and on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research.

For more details, please see the flyer [pdf]. Admission is free and open to the public.

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[This is an excerpt from Stephen Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004, 2011). The full book is available in hardcover or e-book at Amazon.com. See also the Explaining Postmodernism page.]