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Springer, Dordrecht
2017
699 Pages
ISBN 978-981-10-3134-2
A companion to Wittgenstein on education
pedagogical investigations
Edited by
Michael A. Peters , Jeff Stickney
This book, bringing together contributions by forty-five authors from fourteen countries, represents mostly new material from both emerging and seasoned scholars in the field of philosophy of education. Topics range widely both within and across the four parts of the book: Wittgenstein's biography and style as an educator and philosopher, illustrating the pedagogical dimensions of his early and late philosophy; Wittgenstein's thought and methods in relation to other philosophers such as Cavell, Dewey, Foucault, Hegel and the Buddha; contrasting investigationsof training in relation to initiation into forms of life, emotions, mathematics and the arts (dance, poetry, film, and drama), including questions from theory of mind (nativism vs. initiation into social practices), neuroscience, primate studies, constructivism and relativity; and the role of Wittgenstein's philosophy in religious studies and moral philosophy, as well as their profound impact on his own life.
This collection explores Wittgenstein not so much as a philosopher who provides a method for teaching or analyzing educational concepts but rather as one who approaches philosophical questions from a pedagogical point of view. Wittgenstein's philosophy is essentially pedagogical: he provides pictures, drawings, analogies, similes, jokes, equations, dialogues with himself, questions and wrong answers, experiments and so on, as a means of shifting our thinking, or of helping us escape the pictures that hold us captive.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6
Full citation:
Peters, M. A. , Stickney, J. (eds) (2017). A companion to Wittgenstein on education: pedagogical investigations, Springer, Dordrecht.
Table of Contents
Peters Michael A.
211-230
Chaliès Sébastien; Bertone Stefano
659-673
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