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Kevin Proudfoot – Journal of Education Policy, 2025
Teachers' negative experiences of high-stakes accountability have been documented extensively, but the ways in which teachers are able to engage in tactics of resistance in response are less well known. This is most especially true in terms of the subtle, covert forms of resistance which occur through the practice of teachers' everyday working…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
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Ripani, Giulia – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2022
Flourishing has become a popular ideal in the educational debate. Could flourishing guide meaningful choices in education? My skepticism rests on unclear definitions of flourishing, a hidden insistence of theories of flourishing on selfish and individualistic themes, and an elitist vision of flourishing as the consequence of favorable conditions.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Greek Civilization
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Soha Tarek Nouh – NORDSCI, 2023
This report embarks on an exploration of the profound role philosophy has played in shaping education across various historical epochs, commencing with an investigation into the history and fundamental purpose of education. Philosophy has consistently served as a cornerstone, propelling the refinement of learning and teaching methods while…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
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Peterson, Heather W. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2022
In "To Young Men," Basil of Caesarea asserted that pagan literature could be read discerningly for the pursuit of virtue. As a professor of English, I recognize Basil as an exemplar pedagogue in my own insistence that Christian students read secular texts. Not a scholar of Greek, I rely on patristic scholarship to understand Basil's…
Descriptors: Churches, Religious Education, Christianity, Teaching Methods
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Little, Sabrina – Journal of Character Education, 2021
In the classical tradition of education that emerged from the ancient Greek paideia, there is a productive pedagogical sequence of mixed methods for virtue education. First, stories of heroes are paired with physical training. Virtue concept-learning comes next, and strategies involving imitation are adjusted as a student intellectually matures.…
Descriptors: Values Education, Ethics, Teaching Methods, Strategic Planning
Murphy, Madonna M. – Online Submission, 2015
This paper examines Plato's Philosophy of Education asking what he would say about the current Common Core initiative which is to better help students to become college and career ready. Plato would be in favor of the common core in as much as the standards are tied to specific skills needed in various career jobs as he was a proponent of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Academic Standards, State Standards, Greek Civilization
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Mintz, Avi I. – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2011
Scholars who have taken interest in "Theaetetus'" educational theme argue that Plato contrasts an inferior, even dangerous, sophistic education to a superior, philosophical, Socratic education. I explore the contrasting exhortations, methods, ideals and epistemological foundations of Socratic and Protagorean education and suggest that Socrates'…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Philosophy, Educational Theories