Education as initiation into practices

Educational Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-449

  Smeyers, Paul ^a   Burbules, Nicholas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 65249129281     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2006.00237.x     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, trans. Denis Paul and G.E.M. Anscombe, eds. G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright (Oxford: Blackwell, 1969), § 139.
2. Ibid., § 144.
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953), § 219.
4. Bryan R. Warnick, "Learning from the Lives of Others: A Social Analysis of Human Exemplarity and Imitation" (PhD Diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005).
5. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (London: Duckworth, 1981), 175.
6. This stance was the topic of debate in a special issue of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. See especially Alasdair MacIntyre and Joseph Dunne, "Education and Practice Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and Learning," in Joseph Dunne and Paul Hogan, eds., special issue, Journal of Philosophy of Education 37, no. 2 (2003): 5.
7. Richard Smith, "Thinking With Each Other: The Peculiar Practice of the University," in Dunne and Hogan, eds., special issue, Journal of Philosophy of Education 37, no. 2 (2003): 314ff.
8. Charles Taylor, Human Agency and Language, vol. 2 of Philosophical Papers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 93.
9. Ibid., 23.
10. And isn't it peculiar to imagine that a return to oral traditions and a diminishment of reading and writing could be a sign of "progress"? How would those who are blind, or dyslexic, or illiterate react to such judgments?
11. See David Bridges, "The Practice of Higher Education: In Pursuit of Excellence and of Equity," included in this symposium.