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Welch, Kirsten – Educational Theory, 2021
Although education for intellectual virtues, including the virtue of intellectual humility, has received increasing attention in recent years, less focus has been devoted to specific obstacles that can inhibit the cultivation of intellectual virtue. In this article, Kirsten Welch presents one such impediment to the development of intellectual…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Values, Personality Traits, Civics
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Dennis, Matthew J. – Educational Theory, 2023
Digital technologies are changing our understanding of ethical emulation. In this article, Matthew Dennis proposes that some social media technologies have given rise to a strikingly new set of ethical ideals, often concerned with the ideal of self-cultivation. While there is relatively little philosophical discussion of these kinds of ideals,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Information Technology, Social Media, Individual Development
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Taylor, Rebecca M. – Educational Theory, 2016
Open-mindedness is widely valued as an important intellectual virtue. Definitional debates about open-mindedness have focused on whether open-minded believers must possess a particular first-order attitude toward their beliefs or a second-order attitude toward themselves as believers, taking it for granted that open-mindedness is motivated by the…
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Intellectual Experience, Beliefs, Theory of Mind
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Bruno-Jofre, Rosa; Zaldivar, Jon Igelmo – Educational Theory, 2012
In this article, Rosa Bruno-Jofre and Jon Igelmo Zaldivar examine Ivan Illich's own critique of "Deschooling Society", and his subsequent revised critique of educational institutions and understanding of education, within the context of both his personal intellectual journey and the general epistemological shift that started to take shape in the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Criticism, Critical Theory, Epistemology