Education, Experience And Existence: Engaging Dewey, Peirce And Heidegger (new Directions In The Philosophy Of Education)
by John Quay /
2013 / English / Kindle, EPUB
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Education, Experience and Existence
Education, Experience and Existence proposes a new way
of understanding education that delves beneath the conflict,
confusion and compromise that characterize its long history. At
the heart of this new understanding is what John Dewey strove to
expound: a coherent theory of experience. Dewey’s reputation as a
pragmatist is well known, but where experience is concerned
pragmatism is only half the story. The other half is
phenomenological, as crafted by Martin Heidegger. Encompassing
both is Charles Sanders Peirce, whose philosophy draws pragmatism
and phenomenology together in an embrace which enables a truly
experiential philosophy to emerge.
proposes a new way
of understanding education that delves beneath the conflict,
confusion and compromise that characterize its long history. At
the heart of this new understanding is what John Dewey strove to
expound: a coherent theory of experience. Dewey’s reputation as a
pragmatist is well known, but where experience is concerned
pragmatism is only half the story. The other half is
phenomenological, as crafted by Martin Heidegger. Encompassing
both is Charles Sanders Peirce, whose philosophy draws pragmatism
and phenomenology together in an embrace which enables a truly
experiential philosophy to emerge.
The book approaches the problem of confusion in education and
philosophy by beginning with our most basic understandings of
existence. Existence as an interaction is the starting point of
modern science, and existence as individuality offers an
aesthetic origin, attending to existence as a simple unity. In
our contemporary world where scientific ways of thinking are
privileged, the aesthetic whole is often overlooked, especially
in education. Yet both are connected. A coherent theory of
experience is therefore a marriage between phenomenology and
pragmatism, enabling each to maintain its position by
acknowledging how both are required.
The book approaches the problem of confusion in education and
philosophy by beginning with our most basic understandings of
existence. Existence as an interaction is the starting point of
modern science, and existence as individuality offers an
aesthetic origin, attending to existence as a simple unity. In
our contemporary world where scientific ways of thinking are
privileged, the aesthetic whole is often overlooked, especially
in education. Yet both are connected. A coherent theory of
experience is therefore a marriage between phenomenology and
pragmatism, enabling each to maintain its position by
acknowledging how both are required.
The book is divided into three main parts:
The book is divided into three main parts:
- confusion in philosophy and education
- confusion in philosophy and education
- a coherent theory of experience
- a coherent theory of experience
- a coherent theory of education.
- a coherent theory of education.
Quay suggests that education benefits from such a coherent theory
of experience by better comprehending its connection to life.
More than just knowing, more than just doing, education is about
being. This book will be of interest to philosophers, educators
and educational philosophers.
Quay suggests that education benefits from such a coherent theory
of experience by better comprehending its connection to life.
More than just knowing, more than just doing, education is about
being. This book will be of interest to philosophers, educators
and educational philosophers.
