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Descartes and Trust
3 Oct 2024
Descartes Rene Descartes famously argued ‘I think therefore I am.’ His method relied on him having a clear and distinct idea, in this case, ‘I think.’ A less famous argument, but one that has engaged philosophers since, is ‘I doubt therefore I may not be’ or perhaps ‘I may not be as I think I am.’ ‘…
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Commentary: Respectful relations between science and Māori knowledge
29 Sep 2024
Georgina Tuari Stewarta , John Perrottb , Hannah L. Buckleyb , Sarah Burlib , Pare Keihaa, Leilani Walkerb , Dion Henarec , & Kowhai Wilkieb aTe Ara Poutama, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand; bSchool of Science, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand; cS…
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Are We in Love with Hate?
29 Sep 2024
Here’s much to do with love but more with hate; my only love sprung from my only hate (William Shakespeare) In the shadowed recesses of contemporary history, where the air is thick with portent, and the spectre of tyranny looms, we witness a wretched figure rising from the grave of disillusionment…
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Guilty as charged?
25 Sep 2024
Gerry Dunne Marino Institute of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Abstract What is lost when the research-informed testimony of philosophers of education is side-lined and their work interpretatively silenced, dismissed, undervalued or excluded? And how do such exclusionary practice…
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Cultural Form over Substance
23 Sep 2024
Nopera Panakareao was a rangatira (leader) of the Te Pātū hapū of Te Rarawa in the first half of the 19th century. Nopera converted to Christianity, taking a Christian name (Nopera is a transliteration of ‘Noble’), and entered into good faith trade and land transactions with English settlers, who we…
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CPES 2025 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
21 Sep 2024 — Social Media
Proposal Deadline: 9 October 2024
We would like to extend a warm invitation to submit your proposals for the upcoming 2025 meeting of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (CPES). CPES’s annual meeting includes paper sessions, panels, symposia, and an array of networking opportunities. CPES operates under the umbrella of the…
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Questioning Technology in Education: Countering Dominant Narratives and Developing Strategies of Resistance
21 Sep 2024 — Social Media
Submission deadline: November 15, 2024
Proposals papers and panels (symposia) are invited for the 2025 Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (CPES) pre-conference. The preconference, which will take place the day before the CPES conference in Toronto, will include at least one invited speaker, as well as what we hope will be a solid n…
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The Land of Milk and Hate
19 Sep 2024
They say calling Trump what he is – a pedant authoritarian, a convicted criminal, an enabler of the worst and most dangerous elements of our body politic – constitutes a death threat, not a description. Sorry, MAGA, but if the jackboot fits, wear it: he is an authoritarian, a statist, a racist, an a…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
The dark side of critical thinking and the need to restore learning relationships
7 Sep 2024
Niclas Rönnström Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract In the 20th century, critical thinking emerged as an important ideal in and aim of education. Hardly anyone opposes critical thinking, its weight is re-enforced in debates on education and its positive…
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A moral community of a realm of ends
7 Sep 2024
Klas Roth Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract When education only is affected by the instrumental principle and its substantiation vis-à-vis specific normative requirements as narratives, practices and traditions of certain kinds, education merely promote…
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Rethinking education
7 Sep 2024
Mark Murphy University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Abstract The focus of the paper is on the relation between education and solidarity and the possible futures that this might entail. A concern over solidarity has been a constant in different forms over the history of western education syst…
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Teaching as a dance with and towards dignity
7 Sep 2024
Lia Bahizi Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Abstract In educational research there is a plethora of propositions on different ways to address the problem of too narrow and merely/mainly extrinsic and future-oriented aims of education such as the one of produci…
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America’s Tears of Sorrow
1 Sep 2024
America is shedding torrents of molten sorrow, tears that burn like liquid fire, searing their way through the bedrock of its democratic ideals. These are no ordinary tears but a deluge of molten despair cascading down from the heavens, each drop a scorching testament to the unravelling of the natio…
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Educating Philosophers: A Handbook of Best Practice
27 Aug 2024 — Social Media
Expressions of Interest Deadline: October 1st, 2024
The vast majority of philosophers are academics earning their living primarily as teachers. Yet only a tiny fraction are actively interested in philosophy of education or take notice of such jour- nals as Teaching Philosophy. Currently philosophy is under acute pressure from the political econ- omy…
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PES/Educational Theory Pre-Conference Workshop: PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION BEYOND THE HUMAN
27 Aug 2024 — Social Media
Deadline: November 1st, 2024; Workshop: March 6th, 2025 — Baltimore, Maryland
The committee invites submissions for the Pre-Conference Workshop, "Philosophy of Education Beyond the Human." The pre-conference workshop presents a unique opportunity to engage with colleagues, with the goal of creating a shared intellectual conversation around the proposed theme. Accepted papers…
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EPAT Special Issue & Workshop - Canonical Pluralism: New Approaches to Teaching the History of Philosophy
14 Aug 2024 — Social Media
November 20, 2024
In contrast to academic philosophy, teaching philosophy consists largely of reading philosophers from the past. This approach presupposes selecting works and authors that culminate in a ‘canon’: a set of works or authors from a specific period deemed outstanding by individuals at a later period. The…
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Digital Supercapitalism, AI and the Knowledge Economy
27 Jul 2024
Digital Supercapitalism Robert Reich, who served as Secretary of Labour under President Bill Clinton, published Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life (2007), reflecting on how capitalism has evolved in recent decades. Reich argues that since the 1970s, the US a…
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Thinking with Spinoza, Locke, and Dewey about self-control, education, and democracy
24 Jul 2024
Atli Harðarson School of Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland Abstract In the 17th century Spinoza and Locke wrote about education as aiming at self-control. In the 20th century Dewey argued for a similar view in Experience and education, where he described education as enabli…
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The ‘feverish’ society and the aims of education
24 Jul 2024
Marianna Papastephanou Department of Education, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Abstract Borrowing the Platonic metaphor of a ‘feverish’ society, this article discusses the argument that a critical stance toward our contemporary realities makes a revisiting of educational aims more urge…
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INTRODUCTION | Re-visiting and re-thinking aims of education
24 Jul 2024
Education changes over time and place, and so do aims of education. Education was once exclusive and accessible for only a few, often for an elite of some kind. However, education has gradually become more inclusive and accessible or even mandatory for all. And that has not been the only major chang…
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The Death Rattle of Democracy in the Age of Trumpism
21 Jul 2024
Donald Trump is the symbolic figurehead of the MAGA cult who has achieved a towering stature in the popular imagination because of his defiant behaviour after an assassin’s bullet came within an inch of its mark, leaving blood streaming across Trump’s face. Not only should Democrats be gearing up fo…
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Call for Papers: Special Issue “Educational Mosaic: Understanding BRICS States”
18 Jul 2024 — Social Media
15 November 2024
The Educational Studies journal invites scholars to contribute to an upcoming special issue dedicated to exploring the multifaceted landscape of education within the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates). The BRICS states re…
Events
SHAKING DOWN ON VISUAL PEDAGOGIES
18 Jul 2024 — Social Media
December 4th, 2024 9:30 am -12 noon — Tūranga, Christchurch, New Zealand
In collaboration with the PESA conference, the Association for Visual Pedagogies (AVP) presents a panel discussion, followed by interactive workshops, traversing what visual pedagogies shake up and settle down. This discussion and following workshops will delve into the initiatives, innovations, int…
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SCOPICASTING – DOING VISUAL METHODS TO CRAFT SOCIAL FUTURES
18 Jul 2024 — Social Media
November 14th 2024 13.00 – 14:30 (DK Time) — Face to Face and Online, Lancaster University, UK
This is a symposium for reseachers at all stages of their career and across disciplines interested in applying and developing visual research methods and pedagogies in relation to their disciplines to inform social futures. The symposium particularly focuses on visual methods in conjunction with spe…