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Authenticity and Constructivism in Education 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Laurance J. Splitter 《Studies in Philosophy and Education》2009,28(2):135-151
This paper examines the concept of authenticity and its relevance in education, from a philosophical perspective. Under the
heading of educational authenticity (EA), I critique Fred Newmann’s views on authentic pedagogy and intellectual work. I argue
against the notion that authentic engagement is usefully analyzed in terms of a relationship between school work and: “real”
work. I also seek to clarify the increasingly problematic concept of constructivism, arguing that there are two distinct constructivist
theses, only one of which deserves serious attention. I explain that the correspondence view of authenticity pays insufficient
attention to the reality that the presence of “real world” connections does not guarantee that teaching and learning will
be truly authentic. As a bridge to a philosophically acceptable understanding of authenticity, I reflect on John Dewey, who
famously strove to base his views on education on the experience of the child, while rejecting that such experience requires
validation from the “real” world. And Jean Jacques Rousseau offers several clues as to how the search for an authentic self
might proceed beyond the Romanticist vision of an inner essence. These include the idea of the self as constructed inter-subjectively,
which I capture by the term “one among others” and which, in turn, reveals persons as dialogically engaged in working out
who they are and what they stand for (an idea found in the work of Charles Taylor). There is a clear affinity here with the
imperative proposed by Newmann. I embrace the idea that the cultivation of dialogue should be a key priority in classrooms,
because dialogue drives each individual to seek meaning in the context of seeing her/himself as one among others. I highlight
the role of the classroom community of inquiry as an environment which has the dual function of cultivating disciplined inquiry
and facilitating the kind of personal development that can, most properly, be termed “authentic”.
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Karen L. McGavock 《Philosophia》2007,35(2):129-143
Children’s literature was first published in the eighteenth century at a time when the philosophical ideas of Jean-Jacques
Rousseau on education and childhood were being discussed. Ironically, however, the first generation of children’s literature
(by Maria Edgeworth et al) was incongruous with Rousseau’s ideas since the works were didactic, constraining and demanded passive acceptance from their
readers. This instigated a deficit or reductionist model to represent childhood and children’s literature as simple and uncomplicated
and led to children’s literature being overlooked and its contribution to philosophical discussions being undermined. Although
Rousseau advocates freeing the child to develop, he does not feel that reading fiction promotes child development, which is
a weakness in an otherwise strong argument for educational reform. Yet, rather ironically, the second generation of children’s
writers, from Lewis Carroll onwards, more truly embraced Rousseau’s broader philosophical ideas on education and childhood
than their predecessors, encouraging and freeing readers to imagine, reflect and actively engage in ontological enquiry. The
emphasis had changed with the child being embraced in education and society as active participant rather than passive or disengaged
recipient. Works deemed to be seminal to the canon of children’s literature such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan and The Chronicles of Narnia challenge readers to work through conflicts many of which can be identified retrospectively as exhibiting postmodern characteristics.
By exploring moral and spiritual dilemmas in their writing, Carroll, Barrie and Lewis’s works can be regarded as contributing
to discussions on theodical postmodernism. The successes of The Lord of the Rings and Narnia films suggest that there is an interest in exploring moral dilemmas, fulfilling a need (perhaps for tolerance
and understanding) in society at large. Children’s literature has an almost divine power to restore, to repair and to heal,
all characteristics of theodical postmodernism but differing from the more widely held conception of postmodernism which pulls
apart, exacerbates and exposes. Children’s literature therefore offers a healthy and constructive approach to working through
moral dilemmas. In their deconstruction of childhood, these authors have brought children’s literature closer to aspects of
enquiry traditionally found in the domain of adult mainstream literature. As the boundaries between childhood and adulthood
become more fluid, less certain, debate is centring around whether the canon of children’s literature itself has become redundant
or meaningless since there are no longer any restrictions on which subjects can be treated in children’s literature. Despite
the fact that children’s literature clearly engages with difficult issues, it continues to be left out of the critical equation,
not given serious attention, disregarded as simplistic and ignored in contemporary philosophical discussions concerning morality,
postmodernism and the future of childhood. With children’s literature coming closer to mainstream literature, and exhibiting
prominent features of postmodernism, however, it is only a matter of time before philosophical discussions actively engage
with children’s literature and recognise its contribution to the resolution and reconciliation of ontological dilemmas. When
this occurs, philosophy and children’s literature will re-engage, enriching contemporary investigations of existence, ethics
and knowledge and fruitfully developing thought in these areas. This paper aims to contribute to this process.
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Jürgen Oelkers 《Studies in Philosophy and Education》1993,13(2):91-109
The article discusses two basic paradigms of western educational theory, namely the concept of influence and the concept of development. Two historical contextes are analyzed, John Locke's theory of human learning and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's theory of natural development. Both theories are rejected in favour of a position beyond influence and development. This position of a theory of education (Erziehung) is marked with the term moral communication.An earlier and slightly different version of this article was presented to the International Symposion The Crisis of Schools (Corsendonck/Belgium, March 1992). It was translated from the german original by Annette Roeder. The final draft is my own. 相似文献
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Philip A. Quadrio 《Sophia》2009,48(2):179-193
This paper explores the Rousseauian background to Kant’s critique of metaphysics and philosophical theology. The core idea
is that the rejection of metaphysics and philosophical theology is part of a turn from theoretical to practical reason influential
on European philosophy of religion, a turn we associate with Kant but that is prefigured by Rousseau. Rousseau is not, however,
a thinker normally associated with the notion of metaphysical criticism, nor the notion of the primacy of practical reason.
The paper draws out this dimension of Rousseau’s thinking and its importance for Kantian thought. It will proceed by discussing
the Kant-Rousseau connection; demonstrate the importance of practical philosophy for Kant and the critical project generally;
overview Kant’s critique of metaphysics; and turn to a consideration of Rousseau, particularly from the text émile. Given the indisputable influence of Rousseau on Kant, the purpose of this paper is to explore the ways that Rousseau’s own
rejection of philosophical theology might be suggestive to those interested in Kant and the way in which it throws new light
on Kant’s philosophy of religion. As well as drawing out the Kant-Rousseau connection, it also, implicitly, defends the general
orientation of these philosophers as one that is important, perhaps vital, to philosophy of religion.
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Simon Critchley 《Continental Philosophy Review》2009,42(1):5-34
As a way of thinking through the bleakness of the political present through which we are all too precipitously moving, this
essay attempts to demonstrate the interconnections between three concepts: politics, law and religion. By way of a detailed
reading of Rousseau, I try to show how any conception of legitimate politics and law requires a conception of religion at
its base and as its basis. In my view, this is highly problematic and in the conclusion an argument is presented for a politics
of the supreme fiction, which attempts to show how poetry might take the place of religion.
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Michael J. Thompson 《International Journal of Philosophical Studies》2017,25(2):266-285
Rousseau’s project in his Social Contract was to construct a conception of human subjectivity and political institutions that would transcend what he saw to be the limits of liberal political theory of his time. I take this as a starting point to put forward an interpretation of his theory of the general will as a kind of social cognition that is able to preserve individual autonomy and freedom alongside concerns with the collective welfare of the community. But whereas many have seen Rousseau’s ideas as a prelude to communitarianism or authoritarianism, we should instead see his project as articulating an alternative model of moral-cognitivist reasoning. In order to provide a framework for this interpretation, I propose reading his conception of the general will through the theory of collective intentionality and social ontology. I end with a consideration of how this interpretation of the general will can provide a more satisfying understanding of political and practical rationality contemporary debates over republicanism and liberalism. 相似文献
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Daniel Tröhler 《Studies in Philosophy and Education》2004,23(5):367-391
History of education emerges during the course of the nineteenth century in Germany and is marked by four features. It is educational, and not scientific in nature, because it was written primarily for teacher education and training; it is national, or even nationalistic; it is oriented almost exclusively towards German philosophy; and it is indebted to Lutheran Protestantism. This model of pedagogical historiography leaves its mark on the historiographies that emerged later in England, France, and the United States. Taking the example of Rousseau, this contribution makes it clear that these Lutheran and idealist premises lead to a one-sided historiography, so that the republican tradition in which Rousseau stood could be suppressed. On this basis, the paper points up the methodological necessity in historical research to examine contexts, giving up the idea of one history of education in favor of reconstruction of various traditions. The gain lies in making visible suppressed transnational languages that educational reflection made use of for centuries. In particular, a connection is revealed between the republican education of the eighteenth century in Europe and the concern with the issue of the good citizen that has preoccupied the American discussion from Jefferson to the Pragmatists to Diane Ravitch. 相似文献
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Mark S. Cladis 《The Journal of religious ethics》2000,28(2):221-251
This essay employs Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) as a vehicle to explore love in eighteenth-century French moral philosophy and theological ethics. The relation between love of self and love of God was understood variously and produced contrasting models of the relation between the public and the private. Rousseau, perhaps more than any other figure in the eighteenth century, wrestled with the complex, competing traditions of love, and in doing so he probed and articulated the tension between and the harmony of life alone and life together. Using as ideal types a set of historical models of private and public vice and virtue, the author describes Rousseau's three contradictory proposals for dealing with the corruption of social institutions and the human heart and discloses their underlying cohesion. 相似文献