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Author Stables, Andrew, 1956-

Title Childhood and the philosophy of education : an anti-Aristotelian perspective / Andrew Stables.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum International Pub., [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 203 pages).
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series Continuum studies in education
Continuum studies in education.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-200) and index.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Contents Introduction. Conception of childhood -- pt. 1. Aristotelian heritage -- pt. 2. A fully semiotic view of childhood -- pt. 3. Education reconsidered -- pt. 4. Child in society.
Summary "Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. Despite much rhetoric concerning either the sinfulness or purity of children (as in Puritanism and Romanticism respectively), the assumption that children are marginal has endured. Modern theories, including recent interpretations of neuroscience, have re-enforced this sense of children's incompleteness.
This monograph seeks to overturn this philosophical tradition. It develops instead a 'fully semiotic' perspective, arguing that in so far as children are no more or less interpreters of the world than adults, they are no more or less reasoning agents. This has radical implications, particularly for the question of how we seek to educate children. The study will examine critically the bases for the beliefs that more and more compulsory education is necessarily a social good, and that childhood must be grown out of and left behind."--Jacket.
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Subject Aristotle.
Aristotle.
Aristoteles.
Aristoteles.
Education -- Philosophy.
Education -- Philosophy.
Children and philosophy.
Children and philosophy.
Chronological Term Geschichte
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Stables, Andrew, 1956- Childhood and the philosophy of education. London ; New York : Continuum International Pub., ©2008 (DLC) 2008018054 (OCoLC)226966499
ISBN 9781441190185 (electronic book)
144119018X (electronic book)
0826499724 (hardback)
9780826499721 (hardback)
9781441198334
1441198334