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Author Kohan, Walter Omar, author.

Title Childhood, education, and philosophy : new ideas for an old relationship / Walter Kohan
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 116 pages)
Series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education Series
New directions in the philosophy of education series.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series editors' foreword; Presentation; Preface: School and the future of schole: A preliminary dialogue with David Kennedy; Part I Inspiration for a childlike education; 1 Teaching as verification of equality; 2 The teaching of the courage of living in Socrates and the Cynics; 3 Journeying as a way of living, endeavors; Part II Philosophy and a childlike education; 4 Philosophy and childhood: Possibilities of an encounter; 5 Childhood, education and philosophy: Notes on deterritorialization
6 Plato and Socrates: From an educator of childhood to a childlike educator?Afterword: The pedagogue and/or the philosopher? An exercise in thinking together: a dialogue with Jan Masschelein; Index
Summary This book explores the idea of a childlike education and offers critical tools to question traditional forms of education, and alternative ways to understand and practice the relationship between education and childhood. Engaging with the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben and Simón Rodríguez, it contributes to the development of a philosophical framework for the pedagogical idea at the core of the book, that of a childlike education. Divided into two parts, the book introduces innovative ideas through philosophical argument and discussion, challenging existing understan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education -- Philosophy.
Children and philosophy.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Children and philosophy
Education -- Philosophy
Erziehungsphilosophie
Form Electronic book
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