Beschreibung
My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with Kenneth Wain and the many facets of his work. It shows how Wains passionate engagement with various issues, most prominently philosophy and education, continues to re-generate new ideas and thoughts through his philosophical method. This book gives Wains philosophy the attention it deserves and succeeds in continuing an open-ended philosophical conversation with its readers. My Teaching, My Philosophy is a must-read for anyone wanting to get a snapshot on the most recent thinking on philosophy of education.
Inhalt
Content: John Baldacchino/Simone Galea/Duncan P. Mercieca: Introduction. My Teaching, My Philosophy – David N. Aspin: Kenneth Wain and the Protean Challenge of Lifelong Education and the Learning Society – Peter Mayo: Revisiting «Lifelong Learning». 13 Years after the Memorandum – Marianna Papastephanou: What’s in an Examined Life? Longing for Philosophy in the Age of Learning Societies – Ronald G. Sultana: Lifelong Guidance, Citizen Rights, and the State: Reclaiming the Social Contract – Peter Serracino Inglott: Toward an Auto-Poetic and Postmodern Europe – Laura Elizabeth Pinto/John Portelli: The Dangers of Liberal/Rationalist Policy Discourse and the Role of the Philosopher in Disrupting It – Michael A. Peters: White Philosophy in/of America – Joe Friggieri: Objectivity, Evidence, and Truth in History – Simone Galea: Self-Writing, the Feminine, and the Educational Constitution of the Self – Sharon Todd: Pedagogy as Transformative Event: Becoming Singularly Present in Context – Pádraig Hogan: Integrity and Subordination in Educational Practice – Tone Kvernbekk: My Practice, Our Practice – Raphael Vella: An Apprenticeship in Resistance: Art, Education, and Book Burning – Ivan Callus: Tall Buildings, Taller Orders, or, the Immodesty of Literature – Daniela Mercieca/Duncan P. Mercieca: Initiating a Different Kind of Conversation between Philosophy of Education and Educators – John Baldacchino: Art, Paralogy, and Education: In Conversation with Kenneth Wain’s Philosophical Interlocutors – Kenneth Wain: Autobiography: Self-(re)-Education beyond Literature and Philosophy – Sandra M. Dingli: The Role of Philosophy: Questions Rorty Raises – Paul Standish: Momentous Occasions: Philosophy and Autobiography in Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, and Kenneth Wain – Richard Smith: Citizenship, Therapy, and the Politics of Irony.