A comparable change was taking place in the U.S.A. where such bitter critics of the 'Mickey Mouse' education courses offered to teachers as J. B. Conant and J. D. Koerner were urgi
Writing a little over a decade ago of developments in educational philosophy, R. F. Dearden remarked on the dearth of alternative approaches to that of conceptual analysis which pr
What is education? Certainly the concept embraces more than schooling, since the school is only one institution invented to accomplish the purpose of education. Then too, we must a
Philosophy of education is the branch of applied or practical philosophy concerned with the nature and aims of education and the philosophical problems arising from educational the
The philosophy of education is primarily concerned with the nature, aims and means of education, and also with the character and structure of educational theory, and its own place
This article returns to the debate that Carmody initiated in this journal in 2011 when he proposed that Bernard Lonergan's account of self-transcendence could provide the framework
Since all Christians have become by rebirth of water and the Holy Spirit a new creature(8) so that they should be called and should be children of God, they have a right to a Chris
It is therefore as important to make no mistake in education, as it is to make no mistake in the pursuit of the last end, with which the whole work of education is intimately and n
Philosophy of education only became a distinct branch of philosophy in the course of the 20th century, but issues to do with education have attracted occasional philosophical interest as far back as Plato, with later contributions from such diverse major figures as Augustine, Descartes and Kant. In Plato’s Republic the topic of education is linked to that of the good society and the idea that this requires a division of functions with special attention being given to those who will govern the state and to the kind of education necessary for the role. This link between education and citizenship has again become a prominent theme in recent philosophy due to the absence of a unifying religious, ideological or cultural view in society, and the attempt to fashion a notion of liberal citizenship. Until the 20th century issues of the nature, purpose and methods of education tended to be wrapped together in ‘educational philosophies’ but with the rise since the 1960s of analytic philosophy of education the first two have been made the subject of intense discussion. Given its concern to guide ‘souls’ to God, Catholicism has long been concerned with forms of education including obviously spiritual formation, for religious and laity. It is the subject of several papal encyclicals and Vatican documents including Paul VI’s 1965 Declaration on Christian Education Gravissimum Educationis. Education has also been a theme in writings of 20th Catholic philosophers, most prominently Jacques Maritain and Alasdair MacIntyre.