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Wildly Wise in the Terrible Moment: Kant, Emerson, and Improvisatory "Bildung" in Early Childhood Education
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Johansson, Viktor – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
This paper aims to show how Emerson provides a reworking of Kantian understandings of moral education in young children's "Bildung." The article begins and ends by thinking of Emersonian self-cultivation as a form of improvisatory or wild "Bildung." It explores the role of "Bildung" and self-cultivation in preschools…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Moral Development, Individual Development