Hogan, Pádraig
(2011)
Response to Mark Fettes’ Review of The New
Significance of Learning: Imagination’s Heartwork.
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 30 (3).
pp. 323-325.
ISSN 0039-3746
Abstract
I’m grateful to Mark Fettes for taking the time to review my book in an essay length piece.
Yet I’m quite surprised to discover that the review largely bypasses the book’s central
theme. That theme is an exploration of the claim that education is a practice in its own
right. Far from being a ‘familiar complaint’, this claim is a rarely-made one, even by
today’s more forceful critics of bureaucratic control of education. Far from being the plea
of a well-meaning moderate moreover, it is a radical idea on any historical appraisal; as
unwelcome to many of today’s Western governments as were the claims of previous times
for extending the electoral franchise to non-land holders, religious dissenters, women, or
diverse ethnic groups. For these reasons the historical-philosophical account of the colonisation
of education in the book’s Introduction and opening chapter is crucial.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Mark Fettes; Review;
Significance; Learning; Imagination; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
8585 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9234-y |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Padraig Hogan,
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| Date Deposited: |
09 Aug 2017 09:26 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Studies in Philosophy and Education |
| Publisher: |
Springer Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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