Overview
The most comprehensive work on Wittgenstein, focusing on his role as an educator and pedagogical philosopher
Brings together a wealth of original work on Wittgenstein and education
Draws on international scholarship on the subject
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (50 chapters)
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Training, Learning and Education
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Religious and Moral Education
Keywords
- Austrian counter-enlightenment
- Cambridge University
- Ethics of teaching
- Nietzsche
- Pedagogy
- Philosophical dialogue
- Socratic form
- Spengler
- Viennese modernism
- Wittgenstein
- conventions in pedagogy
- historico-cultural approach
- perspective of reason
- philosophy as pedagogy
- philosophy of culture
- learning and instruction
About this book
This collection explores Wittgenstein not so much as a philosopher who provides a method for teaching or analyzing educational concepts but rather as one who approaches philosophical questions from a pedagogical point of view. Wittgenstein’s philosophy is essentially pedagogical: he provides pictures, drawings, analogies, similes, jokes, equations, dialogues with himself, questions and wrong answers, experiments and so on, as a means of shifting our thinking, or of helping us escape the pictures that hold us captive.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jeff Stickney, Lecturer, University of Toronto, taught graduate courses in Philosophy of Education and courses for Philosophy teachers training in secondary education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He is the senior author and consultant on the Grade 12 Ontario text Philosophy: Thinkers, Theories & Questions (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2011), building upon his extensive experience of teaching philosophy at Bayview Secondary School (York Re-gion, Ontario). He recently co-supervised a PhD dissertation on Focault in Philosophy of Education at the University of Toronto and is currently serving on a doctoral committee at York University for a dissertation on Wittgenstein. With Michael A. Peters he co-edited the present volume, and with Nicholas Burbules co-edited the Wittgenstein section in the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Springer; Chief editor Michael A. Peters). Stickney presented at the Nordic Wittgenstein Society (Denmark, 2012), the 2015 PESGB Gregynog Conference 'Orientations Towards Wittgenstein' (Wales), and organized panel discussions on Wittgenstein in 2016 for PES (Toronto) and PESGB (Oxford).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education
Book Subtitle: Pedagogical Investigations
Editors: Michael A. Peters, Jeff Stickney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3134-2Published: 11 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9800-0Published: 29 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3136-6Published: 03 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 782
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Learning & Instruction, History of Philosophy