Educational Theories And Philosophies
This MA programme is exclusive within the UK. It is primarily based in a significant centre for philosophy of schooling and aims to provide college students a comprehensive grounding within the topic. Their texts repay careful study, not only because in studying about them we be taught something about ourselves, but additionally because the problems they elevate and arguments they present are perennial, as timely now as they had been then.
This pressure is maybe felt most acutely by up to date post-trendy philosophers of schooling, however it may be seen in a lot of the work of neo-Marxists, critical theorists, feminists, and Foucauldians as nicely: the best way to argue for and promote an emancipatory strategy to education that does not itself fall into the habits of exclusionary language, authoritative (if not authoritarian) postures, and universalizing generalizations which can be excoriated when detected in the work of others.
On the similar time it has tried to reveal problems with the methods wherein these different accounts have been driven partly by various agendas to define a scope and boundary for the sector, and often to privilege one or another method to philosophy of schooling, even after they have endeavored to …