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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
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
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
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

Mulcahy, Daniel G. – Educational Theory, 1972
Author gives attention to the aspect of Newman's thought which holds that a liberal education is concerned not so much with gaining knowledge as with an active intellectual involvement with it. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Epistemology, General Education, Intellectual Development

Macmillan, C. J. B.; Garrison, James W. – Educational Theory, 1983
The "erotetic" theory of teaching, which is defined by the statement "To teach someone something is to answer that person's question about some subject matter," is clarified and defended in this article. (CJB)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Epistemology, Intellectual Development, Learning Experience

Brown, Arthur – Educational Theory, 1979
Two pairs of conflicting and interrelated values (the public good and the private good; freedom and equality) can be made compatible through education. (JD)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Educational Policy, Human Dignity, Institutions

Young, Elizabeth L. – Educational Theory, 1972
In this critique of June T. Fox's article (EJ 003 566), author contends that Bruner has resolved experimentally some of the rather muddy philosophical ideas suggested by Dewey and that the remaining differences between them may ultimately be seen as differing aspects of an identical problem. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Epistemology

Heslep, Robert D. – Educational Theory, 1972
Presents a basic examination of non-physical mental acts as educational objectives. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Objectives

Kaplan, Thomas J. – Educational Theory, 1977
Efforts to maintain or strengthen the place of history in the curriculum require a solid, theoretical justification of history's utility--a utility whose description has proven elusive. (MJB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Concept Formation, Educational Philosophy, Fundamental Concepts

Proefriedt, William – Educational Theory, 1983
Seeing intelligence as neither strongly hereditary nor necessarily stable over time, and accepting the notion that it is a significant determinant of future occupational status, liberal psychologists and educators rely on the intervention of social institutions, primarily the school. The liberal view toward testing and intelligence is discussed.…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Educational Testing, Intellectual Development, Intelligence

Kaplan, Laura Duhan – Educational Theory, 1991
Discusses beliefs about autonomy, curriculum, and reading that inform the teaching model of critical thinking. It suggests that teaching critical thinking in college as it has evolved into teaching of informal logic is not sufficient for actualizing the ideal of education for autonomy. (SM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Educational Theories, Higher Education