Conformism And Critique in Liberal Society

This internationally-authored and edited book contains a wide-ranging examination of the role of critique in education in liberal democracies. Motivated by a concern for social justice and improvement in education. International in focus, containing contributions from authors in nine different countries. Covers topics such as negative critique, critique and relativism, critique and utopianism, and the limits of critique. Brings out the contrasts and similarities between European and Anglophone treatments of these issues. Structured in a debate format, so that each chapter is paired with a piece that engages critically with it.

Frieda Heyting is Professor of Philosophy and History of Education at the University of Amsterdam. She has written mainly on epistemological issues and socio-philosophical issues within the philosophy of education. She is currently working on interpretations of dependency and participation in educational theory and philosophy.

Christopher Winch is Reader in Educational Policy and Management at King’s College, London. He has taught in primary schools in England, has written numerous books and articles in many areas of the philosophy of education and has interests in the theory of learning, in language and education, and in vocational education.

Preface

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The Role of Critique in Philosophy of Education: its Subject Matter and its Ambiguities

1

(11)

Frieda Heyting

Christopher Winch

The Domestication of Critique: Problems of Justifying the Critical in the Context of Educationally Relevant Thought and Action

12

(17)

Helmut Heid

Don't Fence Me In: the Liberation of Undomesticated Critique

29

(10)

Claudia Ruitenberg

How to Conceive of Critical Educational Theory Today?

39

(16)

Jan Masschelein

Educational Critique, Critical Thinking and the Critical Philosophical Traditions

55

(9)

Marianna Papastephanou

Problematising Critique in Pedagogy

64

(14)

Jorg Ruhloff

Problematising Critique in Education and Child-Rearing: Ruhloff's Scepticism

78

(13)

Stefan Ramaekers

Critique and Negativity: Towards the Pluralisation of Critique in Educational Practice, Theory and Research

91

(20)

Dietrich Benner

Andrea English

Negativity: a Disturbing Constitutive Matter in Education

111

(11)

Rosa Nidia Buenfil Burgos

The Utopianisation of Critique: the Tension between Education Conceived as a Utopian Concept and as one Grounded in Empirical Reality

122

(13)

Michele Borrelli

Borrelli, Mill, Emily and Me

135

(11)

Judith Suissa

Developing Critical Rationality as a Pedagogical Aim

146

(17)

Christopher Winch

What are the Bounds of Critical Rationality in Education?

163

(8)

Christiane Thompson

Relativism and the Critical Potential of Philosophy of Education

171

(18)

Frieda Heyting

Critique, Contextualism and Consensus

189

(15)

Jane Green

Notes on Contributors

204

(3)

Index

207

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