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In this chapter, I first consider Pedagogy i as a discipline and tradition, and some of the various traditions that have existed within Pedagogy in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and into the twenty-first. Second, I consider the notion of praxis which, in the view of Marcus Aurelius (120-180AD), consists in acting for the good for the human community. If, on this basis, we can think of education – and the old tradition of Pedagogy – as being to prepare people to live well in a world worth living in, then we might think, on the basis of Stoic philosophy, for example, about preparing our students in higher education for living well – as citizens and as professionals – in a contemporary world worth living in.
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Kemmis, S. (2012). Pedagogy, Praxis and Practice-Based Higher Education. In: Practice-Based Education. Practice, Education, Work and Society, vol 6. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-128-3_7
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