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Bildung and Paideia examines traditional humanistic ideals in light of philosophical reflection on the need for education of the whole human being.

This book is the first of its kind to critically examine the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler from the perspective of the philosophy of education.

Empire and Education builds on the influential work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri to examine the role of education and pedagogy in the making and unmaking of Empire within our historical conjuncture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.

This collection examines the importance, possibilities, and complexities of the university as an ethical academy. It consists of high quality papers by international scholars and experts who argue what, how, and why Universities may be seen as an evolving network of ethical systems.

This volume brings together a set of contributions discussing some of the most pressing problems and challenges arising out of a reductionist understanding of talents' anatomy.

This book aims to gain a better grasp of how education, both inside and outside school, is shaped by our understanding of time.

Bildung and Paideia examines traditional humanistic ideals in light of philosophical reflection on the need for education of the whole human being.

This book asks what the Confucian heritage mean to modern East Asian education, asking whether it is outdated, or an irreplaceable cultural resource that provides an alternative approach to contemporary education? This book was first published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

This book explores John Dewey¿s ideas on democracy, education, and human flourishing in an era of globalization, reflecting on the legacy of Dewey¿s Democracy and Education 100 years later. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Written by a group of leading, internationally respected scholars in philosophy of education, this book explores the relevance and possibilities of Levinas¿ philosophy to educational theory and practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

This book asks how the aesthetic might be activated and applied through philosophies of education, and how we can intervene in instrumental attitudes to education by activating an aesthetic sensibility. It was originally published in Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Developing a new philosophy of education by collecting essays on recent French thinkers, this book represents a theoretical way forward for the philosophy of education by working with new French thought. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

This book looks at the limitations and achievements of Western philosophy, with particular reference to the issue of education. The book shows that philosophy helps to support Western education and allows it to flourish in the first instance. It was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

This book offers exciting scholarship on a range of philosophical perspectives about early childhood education, particularly those related to pedagogy and related concepts of care and education. In this era of pedagogical certainty, the book comprises a unique set of challenges to standards-based agendas. Increased attention is granted to the subjective, sometimes mysterious, approaches to learning that call for ontological orientations to pedagogy as a relationship rather than a response or intervention. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory sketches possible alternatives for advancing scholarship in educational leadership. Engaging epistemology, ontology, and methodology, the volume evokes the message that there is more than one way to advance knowledge. The approaches adopted across this collection offer fruitful directions for the field and hopefully will stimulate substantive dialogue and debate in the interest of advancing knowledge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

In 1972 the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children formulated a programme promoting philosophy in schools, based on an open community of inquiry. This book recounts details of the successes and difficulties in implementing this model over the last thirty six years, from teachers and philosophers around the world, raising questions about the basic incompatibility of the democratic model and conventional models of schooling. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Developing a new philosophy of education by collecting essays on recent French thinkers, this book represents a theoretical way forward for the philosophy of education by working with new French thought. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.