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Nature, Nurture, Second Nature: Broadening the horizons of the philosophy of education

Koichiro Misawa

Educational Philosophy and Theory 46 (5):499-511 (2014)

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To mould or to bring out? Human nature, anthropology and educational utopianism.Marianna Papastephanou - 2014 - Ethics and Education 9 (2):157-175.details Against narrow understandings of educational research, this article defends the relevance of philosophical anthropology to ethico-political education and contests its lack of space in the philosophy of education. My approximation of this topic begins with comments on philosophical anthropology; proceeds with examples from the history of educational ideas that illustrate what is at stake in placing realism, impossibility and education side by side; and moves to what anthropologically counts as realism or realistic expectations from education. The etymology of the word (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Rethinking the ‘social’ in educational research: on what underlies scheme-content dualism.Koichiro Misawa - 2016 - Ethics and Education 11 (3):326-337.details Approaches to studying the ‘social’ are prominent in educational research. Yet, because of their insufficient acknowledgement of the social nature of human beings and the reality we experience, such attempts often commit themselves to the dualism of scheme and content, which in turn is a by-product of the underlying dualism of reason and nature that has characterised modern thinking. Drawing largely on John McDowell’s argument, this paper attempts to illuminate the sense that nature, nurture and human nature are interconnected and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Humans, Animals and the World We Inhabit—On and Beyond the Symposium ‘Second Nature, Bildung and McDowell: David Bakhurst's The Formation of Reason’.Koichiro Misawa - 2017 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 51 (4):744-759.details David Bakhurst's 2011 book ‘The Formation of Reason’ explores the philosophy of John McDowell in general and the Aristotelian notion of second nature more specifically, topics to which philosophers of education have not yet given adequate attention. The book's widespread appeal led to the symposium ‘Second Nature, Bildung and McDowell: David Bakhurst's The Formation of Reason’, which appeared in the first issue of the 50th anniversary volume of the Journal of Philosophy of Education in 2016. Despite its obvious educational relevance, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations

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