New materialist and posthuman research methodologies are quickly gaining traction in educational research. According to its proponents, new materialism takes us to radically new places of praxis as it reconfigures central notions such as data, researcher positioning and critique. Here I consider how the notion of 'data' is invoked in an example of…

An important and yet unresolved question has concerned the educational community for generations: what is the role of student agency and how do educators take it into account? Traditionalists claim that students are incapable of true agency, not knowing where their interests lie yet, while progressivists argue that the students are the most…

"Trump has discovered something about epistemology in the 21st Century. The truth may be real, but falsehood often works better" (Scherer, M., "Time", April 3, 2017). Ironically perhaps, I took what the Donald has discovered about Western epistemology in our age to be true, so my first cautious answer to the question posed in…

In this paper, I investigate two clashing perspectives regarding the good of the university: a socioeconomic and an epistemic perspective. I position current writing on the university in the philosophy of education as being largely socio-economic and contrast this view to an earlier tradition of writing about the university that I position as…

The aim of this study was to evaluate the attainments and their descriptions, and units of the 11th grade level Turkish Philosophy curriculum, introduced in Turkey in the academic year 2018-2019 in order to display its advantages and disadvantages. In this study, a qualitative research method "document analysis technique" was used. The…

"School as a site for the production of persons" (Packer & Greco-Brooks, 1999) is discussed in this article through an exploration of children's growth as students. Drawing on Nicholas' school stories from Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacque Sempe's well-known series entitled, "Le Petit Nicolas," the kind of people we could…

The article examines what Dewey means by 'growth,' why it is significant and why it should concern us as educators. A metric use of 'growth' is current, as in economic discourse as Gross National Product (GNP), or audited reporting on examination results to produce international achievement data. Dewey's principle of growth focuses on the…

Background: Recently, charity (re)appears in cultural discourse. It is no longer confined to (moral) theology. Objectives: The aim of this article is to defend the acceptance of charity as a major and fundamental category in the formulation of professional learning goals and in the transformation and development of curricula in higher education,…

This article explores Hegels concept of education within the context of his idea of 'second nature'. Hegel believes that institutional life forms, which have been formed through education, culture, technical and social progress, constitute the 'second nature' of human beings. The immediacy of institutional forms which act as humans' 'second…

This commentary promotes discussion on the imaginary provided by Sanaz Farhangi in her article entitled, "Contribution to activity: a lens for understanding students' potential and agency in physics education" (see EJ1191322). The commentary is concerned with aligning ontological assumptions in research accounts of learning and…

Many liberals and secularists believe that religious schooling should not be publicly funded or that it should simply be banned. Challenging those views, I claim that although liberal states may refuse to fund and may even ban certain illiberal separate religious schools, it is impermissible, for distinctively liberal reasons, to completely ban…

By comparing Dewey to adult educators who shared his philosophical values but not his faith in the promise of public schools, this chapter provides a fresh perspective on his concept of building education on experience.

The present paper is an analysis of the recently formulated concept of "Lived Pedagogy." With roots in phenomenology and narrative research and research on 'student voice', the concept is coined as a way to research participants' experience of practical pedagogy in school. The main theoretical and methodological challenges in "Lived…

The primary emphasis of this research is the exploration and development of a Zizekian lens of teacher reflection. This methodological exploration further considers how the Zizekian lens can functions as a unique contribution to both teacher education and the philosophy of education through the exploration of particular pathways of teacher…

Conflict is a ubiquitous feature of community life, and communities based on inquiry are no exception. Sometimes, conflict escalates into crisis. A crisis may help a community by providing opportunities for its members to recognize and ameliorate their shortcomings, but it may also destroy a community or limit its ability to sustain productive…