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Michael Hand – Educational Theory, 2025
For at least half a century, there has been a broad consensus that indoctrination is a pernicious form of miseducation and a distinctive vice of teaching. In recent years, a number of educational theorists have sought to cast doubt on this view. They suggest that the attention traditionally given to the threat of indoctrination, and the anxiety…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ideology, Information Dissemination, Misconceptions
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Katja Castillo – Educational Theory, 2024
In this paper, Katja Castillo approaches the phenomenon of teaching through an analysis of Emmanuel Levinas's unedited conference notes titled "Les nourritures," "Les enseignements," and "L'écrit et l'oral." Levinas's thinking prior to the publication of his major works provides an entry point to his philosophy. In…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Publications, Teaching Methods, Literary Criticism
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Stevens, David – Educational Theory, 2023
Societies concerned with preventing acts of violent extremism often target the ideas that are thought to motivate such acts. The state's use of educational institutions is one mechanism by which those ideas are subjected to challenge. Teaching liberal democratic values to students is one method. Here, David Stevens argues that this model is…
Descriptors: Social Values, Terrorism, Prevention, Antisocial Behavior
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Panjwani, Farid – Educational Theory, 2023
A key epistemological assumption in the ideologies of many of the groups termed extremist is that there is an unmediated access to a Divine Will. Driven by this assumption, and facilitated by several other factors, a range of coercive actions (including violence) to force others into submission to the perceived Will of God are seen as justified by…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Terrorism, Antisocial Behavior, Criticism
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Öhman, Anders – Educational Theory, 2020
In this article, Anders Öhman discusses Gert J. J. Biesta's concept of the risk of education and what it could mean for the study of literature in the classroom. The article's point of departure is Bakhtin's theory of the utterance. The utterance, for Bakhtin, has to be embodied, that is, it has to be governed by a purpose: it must be uttered by…
Descriptors: Risk, Educational Philosophy, Literature, Educational Theories
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Korsgaard, Morten Timmermann; Aldinger, Mathias Mogensen – Educational Theory, 2018
In this article, Morten Korsgaard and Mathias Aldinger examine the educational thinking of Hannah Arendt and accompany their analysis with an educational reading of Søren Kierkegaard's "The Seducer's Diary." The authors argue that their readings of Arendt and Kierkegaard point us to a pitfall in how we often approach the educational…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Progressive Education, Age Differences, Freedom
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Applebaum, Barbara – Educational Theory, 2013
Calls for vigilance have been a recurrent theme in social justice education. Scholars making this call note that vigilance involves a continuous attentiveness, that it presumes some type of criticality, and that it is transformative. In this essay Barbara Applebaum expands upon some of these attributes and calls attention to three particular…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Attention, Persistence, Knowledge Level
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Connell, Jeanne M. – Educational Theory, 2008
In this review essay, Jeanne Connell examines the influence of pragmatic philosophy on the scholarly works of twentieth-century literary theorist and English educator Louise Rosenblatt through the lens of a recent collection of her essays originally published between 1936 and 1999. Rosenblatt grounded her transactional theory of literature in…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods, Literature, English Instruction