Education and conversation : exploring Oakeshott's legacy /
"Since Michael Oakeshott spoke of education as initiation into "the conversation of mankind" more than fifty years ago, the idea has inspired a diverse array of thinkers and continues to be invoked today by those seeking to resist the influence of managerialism and narrow instrumental...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Contents; Acknowledgement; Notes on Contributors; Introduction David Bakhurst and Paul Fairfield; 1 Education and Conversation David Bakhurst; Voices; Conversation; Many voices, one subject; Truth; Initiation; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Experience in Experience and its Modes Barry Allen; Experience; Philosophical experience; Present experience; From modes of experience to the conversation of mankind; Notes; 3 Oakeshottian Pragmatism
- Conversation or Inquiry? Cheryl Misak; Oakeshott and classical pragmatism.
- Cambridge pragmatismPragmatism: inquiry or conversation?; Notes; 4 Bildung, Post-Kantian German Idealism and the Conversation of Mankind James Scott Johnston; Bildung and the conversation of beauty; Kant, Bildung and the education of taste; Hegel, beauty and the end of art; Rival discourses of art and Bildung; Oakeshott and the conversation of mankind; Bildung and the conversation of mankind; 5 Conservatism, Perfectionism and Equality Christine Sypnowich; Oakeshott's theory of education; Oakeshott's conservatism; Conservatives and progressives
- antagonisms.
- Conservatives and progressives
- affinitiesAutonomy and equality; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Oakeshott, Bonnett, Derrida and the Possibilities of Thought Emma Williams; Introduction; Bonnett's critique of Oakeshott; A traditional subject; Thinking beyond representation with Derrida; Oakeshott and the possibilities of thought; Notes; 7 A Turn in the Conversation Paul Standish; Acknowledgement; 8 A Phenomenology of Listening Paul Fairfield; Notes; 9 Conversation and Processes of Recognition Shaun Gallagher; Interaction as a dynamical process of sense- making; From recognition to responsiveness.
- Conversational imperialism and the real dynamics of conversationNotes; 10 Old Directions for New Minds Nancy Salay; The metaphor; Conversation and the brain; The conversation of mankind; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Notes; 11 Education and Autonomy Sebastian Rödl; Introduction; Autonomy: what it is; Education: the kind of passion it is; The idea that education turns the child from an animal into a person, its inconsistency with the idea that the end of education is autonomy; The idea of changing into a person, its incoherence; Education as self-activity; Notes.
- 12 Getting to Hogwarts
- Michael Oakeshott, Ivan Illich and J.K. Rowling on 'School' Babette BabichOakeshott and the language of appetite; Ivan Illich; The university and the twelfth century; Getting to Hogwarts; Monastery and greenwood; Notes; References; Index.
