Materials    on the Philosophy of Education

Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams  ( The hypertext includes the entire book.)

Peter J. Albano's Merleau-Ponty, the Primacy of Perception, and the Philosophy of Education.
(For a response, see Yoon Pak and Ellen Timothy).

H.A. Alexander's Rationality and Redemption: Ideology, Indoctrination, and Learning Communities ( For a response, see Harvey Siegel.)

Barbara Applebaum's Is Caring Inherently Good? (For a response, see Barbara Houston).

Aristotle's Politics

Jerry D. Bamburg's Learning, Learning Organisations, and Leadership:
 Implications for the Year 2050.

Ananyo Basu's African Philosophy and Multicultural Thought.

Clive Beck's Postmodernism, Pedagogy, and the Philosophy of Education
 ( For responses, see Walter Feinberg and Maxine Greene.)

Sanderson Beck's Confucius and Socrates: The Teaching of Wisdom ( An extensive web site
devoted to presenting the lives, teachings, and practices of Confucius and Socrates.)

Gert Biesta's The Right to Philosophy of Education: From Critique to Deconstruction

Gert Biesta's Education/Communication: The Two Faces of Communicative Pedagogy  
( For a response, see Suzanne Rice.)

Seyla Benhabib's From Identity Politics to Social Feminism: A Plea for the Nineties  
( For a response, see Nicholas C. Burbules.)

David Blacker's Philosophy of Technology and Education: An Invitation to Inquiry
( For a response, see Mark Selman.)

David Blacker's Education as the Normative Dimension of Philosophical Hermeneutics
( For a response, see James M. Giarelli.)

Raymond D. Boisvert's John Dewey: Rethinking Our Time ( Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998; this is a review of Boisvert's book by James Garrison.)

Deron R. Boyles' Sophistry, Dialectic, and Teacher Education: A Reinter pretation of Plato's Meno ( For a response, see Terry Hall ).

Carl M. Briggs' Understanding the Way Students Work: Unobtrusive Measures and the Effect of Effort on Performance.

Nicholas C. Burbules' Deconstructing " Difference " and the Difference This Makes to Education ( For a response, see Kathryn Pauly Morgan.)

Nicholas C. Burbules' Postmodern Doubt and Philosophy of Education
 ( For a response, see Mary S. Leach ).

Nicholas C. Burbules' Rethinking Rationality: On Learning To Be Reasonable  
( For a response, see Wendi Kohli.)

David Carr's The Dichotomy of Liberal Versus Vocational Education:Some Basic Conceptual Geography ( For a response, see James Garrison.)

Carl J. Case's Building Student Teams: A Self-Managed Work Team (SMWT) Cooperative Learning Model.

Randy Chafy's Exploring the Intellectual Foundation of Technology Education: From Condorset to Dewey.

J.J. Chambliss' Common Ground in Aristotle's and Dewey's Theories of Conduct.

 X. David Cheng's and Chuan Zhou's Global Impact of China's Higher Education "Project 211."

Ta-Tao Chuang's and Mary B. Burns' Interdependence in IS Development Projects: A Model and Conceptual Overview.

Clinton Collins' Truth as a Communicative Virtue in a Postmodern Age:From Dewey to Rorty
( For a response, see Paul A. Wagner.)

Ubiratan D'ambrosio's Universities and Transdisciplinarity. The Role of Universities in Modern Society.

Hilary E. Davis' The Double Bind of " Double Duty. ( A response to Egea-Kuehne.)

W. Edwards Deming's The New Economics  ( See also excerpts of Chapter 4: " The Deming System of Profound Knowledge." and the Deming Web Site -- File Archive.)

John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916). ( This includes the whole text; all 26 chapters are available; see also James Garrison's review of Raymond D. Boisvert's new book on Dewey.)

John Dewey's The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology and also another article The Psychology of
Effort ; see also N.I. Emand's The Educational Theory of John Dewey 1859-1952.)

John Dewey's The Theory of Emotion. (1) Emotional Attitudes and part 2 The Theory of Emotion. (2) The Significance of Emotions.

John Dewey's  Additional Works (listed at Brock University's sociology department; scroll down to Dewey)

On John Dewey, see Craig A. Cunningham's The Metaphysics of Dewey's Conception of the Self  (For a response to Cunningham, see Marshall Parkes.)

Ron Dorfman's Shattering Silences: The Culture Wars and the Great  Conversation.

Sheryle Bergmann Drewe's A Justification for the Inclusion of the Arts in the Educational Curriculum  ( For a response, see Donald Arnstine.)

Ronald Dworkin's Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It.

Denise Egea-Kuehne's Neutrality in Education and Derrida's Call for " Double Duty."  ( For a response, see Hilary E. Davis.)

Frank Edler's "Nobody Learns in the Classroom" -- or Roger Schank's Electronic End-Run around Academia. (An essay responding to Schank's keynote address "Education Online: Another Educational Outrage?")

Ben Endres'  Habermas and Critical Thinking. ( For a response, see Mark Weinstein.)

Margarete Epstein's and Gregory Madey's  A Framework for Designing Internet-Based Curriculum.

Walter Feinberg's The Goals of Multicultural Education: A Critical Reappraisal ( For two responses, see Barbara Houston and Kenneth A. Strike.)

Walter Feinberg's Interpretation and the Postmodern Condition ( This is a response to Clive Beck.)

K. Dale Foster's and Jeffrey Parsons' Technology-Mediated Active Learning in Information Systems Development Pedagogy: A Case Study.

Paul Friere: Paul Friere and Informal Education ( A web page on Friere's life and theory of education; also includes other links about Friere; see also Tom Heaney's Issues in Frierian Pedagogy)

Friederich Froebel: The Froebel Web Site

Funderstanding Web Site: About Learning/Theories ( "This area explores core
  theories from education, cognitive science, and other related fields":
  (1) constructivism, (2) behaviorism, (3) Piaget's developmental theory,
  (4) neuroscience, (5) brain-based learning, (6) learning styles,
  (7) multiple intelligences, (8) right brain/left brain thinking,
  (9) communities of practice, (10) control theory, (11) problem-based
  learning, (12) Observational Learning, (13) Vygotsky and Social Cognition

 Kenneth J. Gergen's Technology and the Self: From the Essential to the Sublime.

Erika Gottlieb's Reconciling the University with the Community College.

Amy Gutman's Challenges of Multiculturalism in Democratic Education.
( For a response, see Shirley Pendlebury.)

Douglas Kellner's Education, Technology, and Society. ( Links to articles and web sites related to this course entitled Technology and Education.)

Wendy Kohli's A Feminist Rethinking of Reasonableness: An Experiment in Translation ( This is a response to Nicholas C. Burbules.)

Richard Lanham's Technology, Scholarship, and the Humanities: The Implications of
Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge.

David Lewis' Information and Communication Technologies: Threats to Civilization or a Means of Re-generation?

Jens O. Liegle's and Gregory R. Madey's Web-Based Training: A Case Study of the Development of an Internet-Based Training Course.

James D. Marshall's Education in the Mode of Information: Some Philosophical Considerations ( For a response, see Richard Brosio ).

James D. Marshall's Foucault and Neo-Liberalism: Biopower and Busno-power  
( For a response, see Maureen Ford.)

Robbie McClintock's and K.A. Taipale's Educating America for the 21st Century.

Robbie McClintock's (with Luyen Chou, Frank Moretti, and Don H. Nix) Technology and Education: New Wine in New Bottles.Choosing Pasts and Imagining Educational Futures.
                                   
Gordon E. McCray's, Betsy Hoppe's, and Tamara Greenwood's  Strategies
 for Supporting User Populations with Divergent Capabilities in a Technology-Intensive Learning Environment.

Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method. (Online text translated from the Italian by Anne E. George; see also Tim Seldon's Maria Montessori: An Historical Perspective.)

Alven Neiman's The One and the Many in Politics and Education
( This is a response to Dilafruz R. Williams.)

Richard Lewis Nettleship's The Theory of Education in the Republic of Plato.

Nel Nodding's Response to Suppes.

Nel Nodding's Excellence as a Guide to Educational Conversation
( For a response, see Barbara Arnstine.)

James Palermo's "I'm Not Lying, This Is Not a Pipe": Foucault and Magritte on the Art of Critical Pedagogy ( For a response, see Murray Ross.)

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (This web site offers a brief biography and a summary; see also Pestalozzi's text Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt)

Plato's Republic ( See also the home page of The Perseus Project and Richard Lewis
 Nettleship's The Theory of Education in the Republic of Plato as well as Arthur A. Krentz's Play and Education in Plato's Republic.)

Suzanne Rice's and Nicholas C. Burbules' Communicative Virtues and Educational Relations  
( For a response, see Rene Vincente Arcilla.)
 
Martin Rich's A Learning Community on the Internet: An Exercise with Masters Students.

Richard Rorty's Moral Universalism and Economic Triage.

Kelley L. Ross' Foundationalism and Hermeneutics.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile  ( All five books in English and in French; see also Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau's The Education of Rousseau's Sophie and Goethe's Lotte: Could Romanticism Be Reactionary?
and Gordon L. Ziniewicz's Rousseau's (Educational) Principles and Purposes).

Edward G. Rozycki's Is Moral Leadership Possible? ( For a response, see Bruce  B. Suttle.)
                                                      
Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline (I can't find this text online anymore). See John Paul Fullerton's pages on Senge which include a review of The Fifth Discipline and a review of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook among other things; For materials on Senge's new book entitled The Dance of Change:  an excerpt from the book "Leadership in the World of the Living,"  a book review by Jeff De Cagna, and an interview with Senge in Executive Update.
See also Senge Resources  at this site.

Henk van Setten's The History of Education Site  ( An extensive web site on educators and education; includes biographies, works on-line and and links to related sources.)

Daniel Shugurensky's History of 20th Century US Education: Selected Issues.
( A list of significant events in education in the 20th Century with links and explanations. This is part of a course entitled Politics of Education given at UCLA.)

Betty A. Sichel's Beyond Moral Stories  ( For a response, see Michael S. Katz.)

Paul Smeyers' Some Radical Consequences for Educational Research  from a Wittgensteinian Point of View, or Does Almost Anything Go? ( For a response, see Michael S. Katz.)

Stanford Electronic Humanities Review's Special Issue: Constructions of the Mind: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities ( This is a special issue of the Stanford Humanities Review on that topic and lists 19 articles ranging from such issues as AI as a philosophical project and AI and the structure of knowledge to AI research as art and cognitive science as philosophy.)

Lynda Stone's  A Rhetorical Revolution for Philosophy of Education
( For a response, see Jaylynne N. Hutchinson.)

John A. Stoops' Dr. Maria Montessori: An Intellectual Portrait.

Patrick Suppes' The Aims of Education  ( For a response, see Nel Noddings.)                                                           

Kogawa Tetsuo's The Global Transformation of Books and Reading.

Dilafruz R. Williams' Re-Embedding Community  (For a response, see A. Nieman)

Clayton Wright's and Ingrid Stammer's Overcoming Resistance to Educational Technology Innovation.



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