Help me -
I need to compile a must-read reading list in the theory and philosophy of education. It ought to include classics as well as state-of-the-art works. And I am not interested in the tin-tacks of teaching: I need to get over education as a philosophy.
Any ideas?
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This suggestion should catapult me to the top of the "too cool for school" class:
Freire, Paulo
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
and yes, I've actually read it (and recommend it)
What about Tom Brown's Schooldays?
Obviously Dewey.
I know that Doug Wilson and those folks from the Association of Classical & Christian Schools think a lot about education. Maybe they've got some resources, and not simply Sayers The Lost Tools of Learning. Look at http://www.accsedu.org/Recommended%20Readings.ihtml?id=435131 and you'll find modern and ancient books that are recommended.
Teaching the teachers how to think is important.
Socratic Logic by Peter Kreeft
Repairing the Ruins edited by Douglas Wilson
The Case for Classical Christian Education by Douglas Wilson
While I'll attempt to verify this later, it seems at first blush that several of Gregory the Great's admonitions in his Regulae Pastoralis were applied to educational settings.
Wow - lots of people are recommending books by that heretic Wilson...
"The Paideia of God" is another of his titles on education.
Milton's "Of Education" is worth a read, and I would recommend the Sayers' article "The Lost Tools of Learning", as well as Doug Wilson's other books.
Van Til and Berkhof have an join work, edited by Dennis Johnson. P&R Publications.
Plato's Republic
On second cursory glance, the Liber Pastoralis Regulae appear passim to treat of pastoral authority as primarily epistemic in nature, albeit with some judicial overtones of a sort which could easily be expanded later by the likes of Gratian.
Oh gosh, you've got to read Noel Pearson's Quarterly Essay recently published. Here he reviews and critiques educational philosophy and approach and draws a range of implications for Aboriginal education and also more broadly. It's rich, insightful, visionary stuff, as I've come to expect from the man.
A problem I've been having in compiling a reading-list for this matter along the lines requested is that most treatments thereof I've seen written before c. 1880 seem inextricably caught-up with the nature of those matters deemed fitting to be taught.
Michael,
Since no one else has suggseted them, the following are vital:
Michael Oakeshott on Education (I think that's the title)
and
Simone Weil's 'Essay on School Studies'
I may have those titles slightly off, but a bit of digging should bring then to light.
"The Abolition of Man" CS Lewis
Late to the party, but I thought David H. Kelsey, Between Athens and Berlin: the Theological Education Debate (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993), from the college library, worth a look - sets up a spectrum of two different approaches. Plus it's in the college library, and easy to reach.
This is a fantastic presentation which captures what theory of education is all about...
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Thanks for pulling this together and sharing!
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