Magrini, James M.

Social efficiency and instrumentalism in education critical essays in ontology, phenomenology, and philosophical hermeneutics / [electronic resource] : James M. Magrini. - New York : Routledge, 2014. - 1 online resource (x, 190 p.) - Studies in curriculum theory .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The historical milieu of social efficiency : locating the problem of the loss or forgetting of phenomenological self-hood -- 2. The destruktion of the language of learning in social efficiency : language and conceptualization in phenomenological ontology and original learning -- 3. Phenomenology and curriculum inquiry : understanding the methods of Willis, van Manen, and Heidegger -- 4. Philosophical hermeneutics : Socrates and the ethos of dwelling in a philosophical community of original learning as Bildung -- 5. Huebner's reading of Heidegger's fundamental ontology : the authentic reconceptualization of learning, historicity, and temporality for contemporary education -- 6. Cosmopolitanism and curriculum in a new key : the complicated philosophical conversations of Pinar and Aoki.

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Education--Curricula--Philosophy.
Education--Social aspects.
Ontology.