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Education in a Society uncertain of its Values
In recent decades the life circumstances of most people around the world have changed enormously. We are again expecting scarcity and economic crisis, the danger of war, terrorism and environmental destruction. However, people’s tendencies toward selfishness and the misuse of freedom, uprooting, dissoluteness and crime are also increasingly being seen as threats to society and individual citizens. The decline of support-giving religious, worldview and moral traditions has given rise to great uncertainty about values. Citizens increasingly experience this as a burden, and are becoming more receptive to a reassessment. More of us are seeking a new orientation. Those responsible for children ...
Education and Pedagogy in Cultural Change
In a period of rapid cultural shifts, changing populations and new ideologies take hold and reshape political agendas and norms in the West. It is against this backdrop that Wolfgang Brezinka presents his controversial take on the impact these changes have made on the public education landscape. Offering his views on the historical context behind these cultural shifts, Brezinka argues for the development of moral and values education in the West and discusses the conflicting roles migration, divergent ideologies, and other factors have had to play. Focusing on pedagogy and policy, Brezinka puts forth a provocative perspective on the relationship between pluralism, tradition, and the future of education.
Philosophy of Educational Knowledge
For two reasons, we are particularly proud to include Wolfgang Brezinka's Philosophy of Educational Knowledge in this series of books on Philosophy of Education. Thefirst is the philosophicalinterestoftheworkitself-its remarkablescholarship and the importance ofthe philosophical positionswill beobvious to allreaders. The secondisthat it brings to the English-speaking world a wonderful example ofeducational philosophy as now being practiced in the German-speaking world. All too often philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition have not seen the sort of perspective on educational thinking that infuses this work. And since this book has been widely read in its original version, it has had a co...
Critical Rationalism and Educational Discourse
Critical Rationalism has become an influential philosophy in many areas including a great number of scientific disciplines. Yet only few studies have been devoted to the role of the philosophy of Sir Karl Popper in the vast field of education. This volume undertakes to fill this gap. Leading scholars in the educational science and in the philosophy of education have critically written for this volume in an attempt to elaborate Popper's methodological and socio-political views and confront them with a globally relevant spectrum of scientific objectives and cultural values. Among the topics discussed are moral values, education for freedom and its consequences for the student, and the critical attitude in political education. Attention is also paid to the historiography of this significant philosophical movement. Regarding pedagogical research, the empirical paradigm, the falsificatory approach to educational research, the complex relationship between educational theory and practice as well as the problem of value-neutrality in educational science are objects of critical analysis.
Der werdende Mensch
Das Buch befasst sich mit der zunehmend problematischer werdenden Persönlichkeitsentwicklung in ihrer gesellschaftlichen Bedingtheit. Es macht anhand gesellschaftlicher Krisenphänomene auf die Nicht-Selbstverständlichkeit einer gelingenden Persönlichkeitsentwicklung aufmerksam. Unter Verweis auf die Plastizität des menschlichen Organismus zum Zeitpunkt der Geburt weist es die nahezu vollständige Ergebnisoffenheit der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung und die Möglichkeit ihres völligen Scheiterns nach. Ziel des Werkes ist die Vermittlung wichtiger Erkenntnisse der philosophischen Anthropologie, der Sozialisationsforschung, der Hirnforschung und der Bindungsforschung, die bisher zu wenig beachtet wurden. Es möchte erreichen, dass die Öffentlichkeit den Prozess der vielfältigen Gefährdungen dieses Prozesses eindeutiger als bisher Rechnung trägt. Dazu bedarf es notwendigerweise einer Dynamisierung des Menschenbildes.
Basic Concepts of Educational Science
This book offers reliable orientation in dealing with pedagogical discourse. Brezinka explains important concepts of educational science, such as education, aim of education, and educational means. In his efforts to exactly define these terms, he clarifies the linguistic, logico-empirical and ideological-critical analysis of pedagogical concepts. The results are fundamental for the science of education, philosophy of education, and practical pedagogics. Contents: Introduction; I. EDUCATION. Conceptual Confusion in the Problem Area of "Education"; II. EDUCATIONAL AIM. Conceptual Confusion in the Problem Area "Aims of Education"; Semantic Analysis of the Word "Aim"; Clarification of the Concept "Educational Aim"; Purpose and Functions of Educational Aims; Summary; III. NEED FOR EDUCATION. Semantic Analysis of the Term "Need for Education"; Provisional Specification of the Concept "Need for Education"; Logico-Empirical Analysis: Need for Education as an Essential Human Attribute?: Ideological-Critical Analysis: "Need for Education" as a Slogan; Summary and Prospects for the Future; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.
Socialization and Education
These three essays on social science terminology examine commonly used words whose meanings, on closer examination, are not clear. The first essay analyzes the term socialization as it is used inconsistently by 24 authors in psychology, sociology, and education. Brezinka contends that it is frequently confused with the term education, to the detriment of both concepts. The second essay, Models in Educational Theories, examines 15 usages of the term models, including the vogue expression paradigm, and finds little of use for the science of education in the concepts. The third essay, Conflict Education, attacks the New Left and its pedagogical theories for failing to abide by basic principles of concept construction and use. Throughout the book, the author shows how imprecision can be identified and corrected.
Knowledge and the Study of Education
In the English-speaking world, university Schools of Education are usually heavily involved in the professional preparation of teachers. Yet, in England and the USA in particular, the role of universities in teacher education has increasingly seemed under threat as alternative providers of training have come on the scene, often with the overt encouragement of governments. This book, which is based on a project that explored how the study of Education is configured in different countries, makes visible the different knowledge traditions that inform university teaching and research in Education around the world. The extent to which these are related to the training of teachers is shown to vary...
