I have fond memories of my undergraduate institution, the University of Guelph in Canada. It’s a beautiful campus, I got a wide-ranging liberal arts education, and the Philosophy Department was intellectually diverse and (mostly) competent. (Another alumni, John Kenneth Galbraith, was apparently not so impressed with his time there.) Check out pages 48-52 of this […]
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A stimulating, 11:40-minute animated talk by Ken Robinson. I have qualms about some of Robinson’s intellectual-history-of-education claims, but his portrait of mainstream contemporary education (especially the repulsive cop-out that is the ADHD “epidemic”) and his prescriptions for reform are bang-on accurate. [Which reminds me of my extended series on the philosophy and history of education.]
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Recently I gave an extra-credit assignment in one of my courses. The course has twenty students, eleven men and nine women. Six students chose to do the assignment — and then I noticed something in my grade book: all of them were women. Getting all statistic-y about it: 66.7% of the females were willing to
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Stephen Hicks discusses why philosophy matters to education. This is from Part 15 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-3: Previous: [Part 14: Postmodern education] Postmodern education: science. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Also: the full fifteen-lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via these playlists. Return to the StephenHicks.org main
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Stephen Hicks discusses the use of history in postmodern education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: Postmodern education: Literature. Next: Postmodern education: Science. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via these playlists. Return to the
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Stephen Hicks discusses the critique of science in postmodern education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: Postmodern education: History. Next: [Part 15: Conclusion] The importance of the Philosophy of Education. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy of Education at
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What sort of teacher is desirable from the pomo perspective — Stephen Hicks discusses teacher training in postmodern education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: Henry Giroux on education. Next: Postmodern education: Literature. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy
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Stephen Hicks discusses Marxism’s view of education during the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., during the transition from capitalism to socialism. This is from Part 13 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: Marxist teachers in a capitalist system. Next: Education under socialism. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full
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