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Nishihira, Tadashi; Rappleye, Jeremy – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Unlearning is a recurrent theme in Japan. To further understanding of what this entails, we focus on the view of learning laid out by a revered 13th century Zen-inspired playwright. For Zeami, learning involved a movement from the acquisition to unlearning of skills, punctuated by an experience of "mushin," followed by creative…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Drama, Authors, Learning Processes
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Collins, Ashok; Clemens, Manuel – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
The opposition between learning as a process of self-cultivation ("Bildung") and learning as a form of vocational training for the workplace ("Ausbildung") is becoming ever more deeply entrenched in the twenty-first-century university. In language education in particular, the distinction between these two competing aims…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocational Education
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Hwang, Soon Ye – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
Often defined as originality and innovation and desired for the economic profits it can produce for both individuals and their societies, creativity has been examined in order to find ways in which it can be promoted through various instructional practices in and beyond schools. Nonetheless, creativity as a fundamental basis of human existence and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Communities of Practice, Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy
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Thomson, Iain – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
This article develops Thomson's post-Heideggerian view that ontological education is centrally concerned with disclosing being creatively and responsibly. To disclose being creatively and responsibly is to realize the meaning of being, developing our historical understanding of what being means along with our consequent understanding of what it…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Postmodernism, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Rauf, Hozan L.; Shareef, Sardar S. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Paulo Freire is undeniably a prominent figure who greatly influenced 21st century higher education. More specifically, architectural education been greatly affected by Freire's thinking in relation to producing a design project with dialogue and consciousness. This study aims to implement Freire's thoughts in contemporary design studios, where the…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Educational Theories, Undergraduate Students, Design
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Yang, Fan – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
In an era when individuality has been increasingly emphasized, the development of science and technology has provided technical support for the realization of individuation. However, in an examination-oriented education system, the education model has not attached sufficient importance to individuality. The modern education industry focuses much…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Religion, Educational Philosophy, Asian Culture
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Gilbert, Jeremy – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
Much recent work in the study of popular culture has emphasized the extent to which it is not only a site of signifying practices, myths, meanings and identifications, but also an arena of intensities, of affective flows and corporeal state-changes. From this perspective, many areas of popular culture (from calisthenics to social dance to video…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Lecture Method, Exercise