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Education and the Philosophers

Education and the Philosophers J. P. POWELL The philosophical study of education is in a bad way, in fact, as an academic discipline it can scarcely be said to exist at all. Many teacher­ training programmes contain a course called " The Philosophy of Education .. but in the vast majority of cases this title is a complete misnomer: the contents of these courses are at worst philosophically vacuous and at best naive and quite out of touch with modern philosophy. A glance at some of the standard texts will at once make this clear-, According to Bantocks, the condition of educational theory is almost as serious: ". . . the lack, in recent years, of a serious and sustained attempt to study the historical literature concerned with the philosophy of education . • . its complete ignorance of current methods of philosophical analysis, the lack of any co-operative argumentation among educationists as to its function and purposes, or any attempt to define its limits and its relation to other disciplines, in a word its complete lifelessness, must be matter for grave disquiet. For anyone struggling to reassert the claims of educational theory as meriting some academic dignity, the sense of isolation, the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Education and the Philosophers

Powell, J. P.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 9 (2): 4 – Jun 1, 1965
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© 1965 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494416500900204
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J. P. POWELL The philosophical study of education is in a bad way, in fact, as an academic discipline it can scarcely be said to exist at all. Many teacher­ training programmes contain a course called " The Philosophy of Education .. but in the vast majority of cases this title is a complete misnomer: the contents of these courses are at worst philosophically vacuous and at best naive and quite out of touch with modern philosophy. A glance at some of the standard texts will at once make this clear-, According to Bantocks, the condition of educational theory is almost as serious: ". . . the lack, in recent years, of a serious and sustained attempt to study the historical literature concerned with the philosophy of education . • . its complete ignorance of current methods of philosophical analysis, the lack of any co-operative argumentation among educationists as to its function and purposes, or any attempt to define its limits and its relation to other disciplines, in a word its complete lifelessness, must be matter for grave disquiet. For anyone struggling to reassert the claims of educational theory as meriting some academic dignity, the sense of isolation, the

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Published: Jun 1, 1965

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