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The eight short explorations in the first part of this paper attempt to identify some crucial developments in the history of Western learning which eclipsed pluralist educational practices in their (Socratic) infancy and thereafter, and which contributed to the widespread employment of education as a force for cultural uniformity, or assumed superiority. Drawing together the lessons of the first part with contemporary insights from hermeneutic philosophy, the second part sets forth briefly the promising educational possibilities for human self-understanding and co-existence which are furnished by a newly-inspired reclamation of the long-eclipsed heritage.
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Hogan, P. The Politics of Identity and the Experience of Learning: Insights for Pluralism from Western Educational History. Studies in Philosophy and Education 17, 251–259 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005126711401
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