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This chapter provides an overview of philosophy of education as positioned in between the discourses and concerns of philosophy, on the one hand, and education, on the other. Maintaining credibility with both domains presents philosophy of education with certain dilemmas, which this chapter tries to address. Three ways of minimizing these dilemmas are explored: the development of non-ideal theories, philosophy of education as a situated practice, and the use of case-based methods.
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Michael A Peters, Nicholas C. Burbules, and Paul Smeyers, Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher (Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishing, 2008). Revised and reissued with a new Preface and Postscript (2010).
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Another example, concerning education in John Locke’s theory, is Nazar, Hina. “Locke, Education, and ‘Disciplinary Liberalism’.” The Review of Politics 79, no. 2 (2017): 215–238.
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This account is partly inspired by Jim Giarelli’s distinction of philosophy of education, philosophy and education, and philosophy as education, though I frame the issues slightly differently than he did. James Giarelli, “Philosophy, Education, and Public Practice,” in Philosophy of Education 1990, ed. David Ericson (Normal, Ill.: Philosophy of Education Society, 1991).
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Nicholas C. Burbules, “Continuity and diversity in philosophy of education: An introduction.” Educational Theory, Vol. 41 No. 3 (1991): 257–263.
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This section is excerpted and adapted from Nicholas C. Burbules, “Non-ideal theory and the philosophy of education,” Philosophical Studies in Education Vol. 46 (2015): 25–35.
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This section is excerpted and adapted from Nicholas C. Burbules and Kathleen Knight Abowitz, “A situated philosophy of education.” Philosophy of Education Society Yearbook, 2008, Ron Glass, ed. (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2009), pp. 268–276.
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Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay. Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries. Harvard Education Press. 8 Story Street First Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138, 2016: pp. 3–4.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem [Accessed January 17, 2017].
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Burbules, N.C. (2018). Philosophy of Education. In: Smeyers, P. (eds) International Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72761-5_98
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