Education, knowledge, and truth: beyond the postmodern impasse

by Carr, David

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Full title :Education, knowledge, and truth : beyond the postmodern impasse / edited by David Carr.

Summary

This collection aims to explore different conceptions of epistemological inquiry and their influence on pedagogy and the curricular content of primary and secondary education. It is arguable that curriculum policy makers have continued to subscribe to a foundationalist paradigm of rational educational planning. This is, however, considered largely untenable by educational philosophers in light of the impact of 'postmodern' philsophical critiques on the notions of objectivity, truth and authority in our claims for knowledge. This volume fills a major gap in the current literature of educational philosophy by calling for the establishment of a coherent route between rational foundationalism and intellectually promiscuous postmodernism in order to address the point and purpose of contemporary education.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0203299124, 9780203299128
oclc:ocm53171701
LC Classification:LB14.7
Dewey Decimal:370/.1

Introduction: The post-war rise and fall of educational epistemology /David Carr1 -- Part IKnowledge in general17 -- 1Knowledge, truth and education /Harvey Siegel19 -- 2Interpretation, construction and the 'postmodern' ethos /David E. Cooper37 -- Part IIKnowledge in particular51 -- 3Science education after postmodernism /Jim Mackenzie53 -- 4Truth in religion: Wittgensteinian considerations /Fergus Kerr68 -- 5Truth, arts education and the 'postmodern condition' /Graham McFee80 -- 6Fictional truth /Lynne McFall96 -- 7Moral education and the objectivity of values /David Carr114 -- 8Virtues and human flourishing: a teleological justification /Jan W. Steutel129 -- Part IIIThe wider socio-political context143 -- 9The politics of difference and common education /Eamonn Callan145 -- 10Epistemology, politics and curriculum construction /D.C. Phillips159 -- 11Feminism, epistemology and education /Shirley Pendlebury174 -- Part IVKnowledge and learning189 -- 12Learning as invention: education and constructivism /Christopher Winch191 -- 13Education, knowledge and critical thinking /Sharon Bailin204 -- 14Assessment and the challenge of scepticism /Kevin Williams221.

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Curriculum planning Éducation -- Philosophie Education -- Philosophy EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects epistemology Erkenntnistheorie Erziehungsphilosophie Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) Knowledge, Theory of onderwijs politiek Postmoderne Postmodernism and education Postmodernisme Postmodernisme et éducation Programmes d'études -- Planification Recherche (Théorie de la connaissance) Théorie de la connaissance Truth