Social efficiency and instrumentalism in education [electronic resource] : critical essays in ontology, phenomenology, and philosophical hermeneutics / James M. Magrini.

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.