Dissertations / Theses: 'Philosophy of the adventist education'

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Martins, Enilce Barbosa. "Educação como obra missionária: a educação como instrumento de difusão da filosofia adventista." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2066.

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Education as a missionary work is a way to analyse others fields, to elaborate contents that can help us to think about ways to improve the quality as well as in education and in life. From this conception, we go through the history of Protestantism in Brazil, through the economy to politic and culture, to the influences of the new ideologies brought by the protestants in the education. In this context, we developed this study in order to seek the origin and the philosophy of the adventist education, preached by Ellen G. White, who is considered a prophet by the adventist church. This philosophy has successfully for more than a century. From this perspective we deal with the religion issue to be worked with the learning and teaching processes, regarded as an emergency in a kind of education that a person can become more human in one s relationship with others
Educação como obra missionária é um trabalho que procura por meio de analise de algumas obras, elaborar um conteúdo que possa auxiliar no pensar uma busca na qualidade da educação e também na qualidade de vida. A partir dessa concepção, passamos pela história do protestantismo no Brasil, bem como pela economia, a política e a cultura, e contribuição para a educação nas novas ideologias trazidas pelos protestantes. Nesse contexto, desenvolvemos este trabalho no sentido de buscar a origem e a filosofia educacional adventista, pregadas por Ellen G. White, considerada uma profetiza pela Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, filosofia esta que atravessou mais de um século, chegando até aos nossos dias com tanto sucesso. Nessa perspectiva trabalhamos a questão da religião a ser inserida no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, vista como à emergência de uma educação que torne a pessoa mais humana em suas relações com os outros

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Pearson, M. D. "Seventh-day Adventist responses to some contemporary ethical problems." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371728.

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Dunn, H. "Reality and truth in the seventh-day adventist church." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377815.

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Combie, Christopher C. "Presidential Views of Leadership in Seventh-day Adventist Higher Education." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5003.

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This qualitative research explored the perceptions of presidential leadership in Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) higher education in North America. The perceptions included the identification of leadership competencies and leadership styles that promote the mission of the SDA church in higher education. This research also identified the personal and professional experiences of SDA college and university presidents that contributed to their successful accession to the presidency. The presidents came from the twelve non-medical SDA colleges and universities in the continental United States and Canada. The three themes that emerged relevant to the perceptions of presidential leadership were (1) succession planning, (2) increased professionalization of the presidency, and (3) increased presidential tenure. One theme emerged relevant to the personal experiences that contributed to the successful accession to the presidency and was classified as significant impact of spousal and familial support on career trajectory. One theme also emerged relevant to the professional experiences that contributed to the successful accession to the presidency and was classified as progressively more challenging job experiences. Implications for practice suggest that SDA institutions, their associated governing boards, and church policymakers create and execute strategies to address the lack of qualified presidential aspirants in the pipeline. Recent graduates of doctoral education should express their eventual interest in the presidency and seek out varied leadership experiences early on in their careers. Church officials should consider formal implementation of a leadership track and consider succession planning within the SDA system.

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Tyrell, Marva E. "Perceptions of Character Education in a Seventh-Day Adventist School." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/762.

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Character education has been viewed by many educators as having significant historical, academic, and social value. Many stakeholders in education argue for character development as a curricular experience. While understanding the degree to which character education is of worth to stakeholders of institutions is important, understanding students, teachers, and administrators perspectives from their lived experiences is likewise significant. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of character education within a Biblical framework environment by examining the lived experiences of students, administrators, and teachers of a Seventh-day Adventist School. Phenomenology describes individuals’ daily experiences of phenomena, the manner in which these experiences are structured, and focuses analysis on the perspectives of the persons having the experience (Moustakas, 1994). ). This inquiry was undertaken to answer the question: What are the perceptions of students, teachers, and an administrator toward character education in a Seventh-day Adventist school setting? Ten participants (seven students and three adults) formed the homogeneous purposive sample, and the major data collection tool was semi-structured interviews (Patton, 1990; Seidman, 2006). Three 90-minute open-ended interviews were conducted with each of the participants. Data analysis included a three-phase process of description, reduction and interpretation. The findings from this study revealed that participants perceived that their involvement in the school’s character education program decreased the tendency to violence, improved their conduct and ethical sensibility, enhanced their ability to engage in decision-making concerning social relationships and their impact on others, brought to their attention the emerging global awareness of moral deficiency, and fostered incremental progress from practice and recognition of vices to their acquisition of virtues. The findings, therefore, provide a model for teaching character education from a Seventh-day Adventist perspective. The model is also relevant for non-Seventh day Adventists who aspire to teach character education as a means to improving social and moral conditions in schools.

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Santiago, Edwin P. Alicea. "The relationship of family, church, school, peers, media, and Adventist culture to the religiosity of Adventist youth in Puerto Rico." Thesis, Andrews University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3621863.

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Problem No formal study that considers the influence of the family, church, school, peers, media, and Adventist culture on the denominational loyalty, Christian commitment, and religious behavior of Adventist young people of Puerto Rico has previously been conducted. Therefore, pastors, parents, teachers, church leaders, and administrators have no data on which to base their assessment of the religiosity of Adventist young people.

Method This study used youth ages 14 to 21 from the youth sample of the Avance PR study conducted in 1995 in Adventist schools and churches in Puerto Rico. For the analysis, the sample was divided. When studying denominational loyalty, 704 baptized Adventist youth were used; when studying Christian commitment and religious behavior, 1,080 Adventist and non-Adventist youth were used.

Results The relationship between 34 family, church, school, peers, media, and Adventist culture independent variables and three religiosity dependent variables (denominational loyalty, Christian commitment, and religious behavior) was studied. Twenty-eight of the 34 variables had a significant relationship with all three religiosity variables: 10 family variables, seven church variables, one school variable, two peers variables, two media variables, and six Adventist culture variables. The remaining six variables had a significant relationship with only one or two of the three religiosity variables. The strength of relationships between religiosity and 22 of the independent variables varied by gender, age, family status, years lived in United States, and number of times families moved in last five years.

The model predicting denominational loyalty showed that youth are more likely to have a strong denominational loyalty when parents enforce Sabbath standards, there is a thinking environment in the church, quality sermons are preached in church, there is a warm environment in church, youth's best friends are religious, youth agree with Adventist standards, and youth agree with Sabbath standards. The model predicting Christian commitment showed that youth are more likely to have a strong commitment to Christ when there is unity in their families, there is a thinking environment in the church, there is a warm environment in the church, quality sermons are preached in the church, youth's best friends are religious, youth agree with Sabbath standards, and youth comply with at-risk standards. The model predicting religious behavior showed that youth are more likely to have a strong religious behavior when the parents lead frequent family worships, there is a thinking environment in the church, quality sermons are preached in the church, youth's best friends are Adventist, youth's best friends are religious, youth agree on Adventist standards, and youth agree on Sabbath standards.

The variables that appeared in all models of religiosity of youth were the church's thinking environment, the church's sermon quality, youth's best friends religiosity, and youth's agreement on Sabbath's standards. Furthermore, the strongest predictor for denominational loyalty was the youth's agreement on SDA standards; the strongest predictor for Christian commitment was family unity; and the strongest predictor for religious behavior was the church's thinking environment.

Conclusions My conclusions based on this study conducted in Puerto Rico are consistent with conclusions of other researchers in the United States that family, church, school, peers, media, and Adventist culture factors are important predictors of youth's denominational loyalty, Christian commitment, and religious behavior. Adventist culture and church have the strongest influence on denominational loyalty. Family and church have the strongest influence on Christian commitment. Church and Adventist culture have the strongest influence on religious behavior. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Somasundram, Drene. "A gender inclusive model in theological education for the Seventh-day Adventist church." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2007. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/2659/.

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Clergywomen in the Seventh-day Adventist Church have spoken for the first time of their theological training at a private Christian tertiary institution in Australia. A phenomenological design was utilised where Clergywomen’s collective lived experience of theological education was captured and analysed. The major themes of ambivalence in identity formation, the struggle to question dominant hegemony and existence in hostile environments depict the lifeworld of Clergywomen. The findings from this investigation, together with the Clergywomen’s recommendations for improvements to theological training, have guided the development of a contemporary model for theological education for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This model is called the TRI-Space Model Design in Theological Education; it embodies both gender inclusive pedagogy and thirdspace thinking – a relatively new philosophy that is beginning to emerge within theology. This model offers new directional formation that opens up new and exciting possibilities in Seventh-day Adventist institutions and the wider field of theological education. This study is pivotal for Christian educators and administrators who seek to develop and employ a holistic approach to ministerial formation.

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Tagai, Kuresa School of Education Studies UNSW. "Factors Affecting Faculty Morale in Seventh-day Adventist Tertiary Institutions." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Education Studies, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/32663.

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Using a multimethod approach, this study set out to examine the concept of faculty morale - what it is, what affects it, and how to improve it - in the setting of the four South Pacific tertiary institutions owned and run by the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. Based on three research questions and three major expectations, the study, done between October 1997 and March 1998, was carried out in two stages representing the two models of research - quantitative and qualitative. The study confirmed the multi-faceted and complex nature of morale as well as the close relationship between this concept and that of job satisfaction. While faculty morale appeared better in some institutions than others, the data reported in this study indicate that faculty morale overall seemed to have suffered due to a variety of factors. Most notable among these was the perceived leadership style of senior administrators as manifested through a range of activities and attitudes comprising their willingness or otherwise to share power with the faculty, to follow a satisfactory process of consultation, to allow adequate academic freedom, to promote faculty participation and representation in institutional policy- and decision-making, and to communicate openly with academic staff. Faculty satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the above and other aspects of their senior administrators' leadership style, along with their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with other aspects of their work, were the principal factors linked to faculty morale. The surprising absence of a significant relationship between faculty morale and a religious-oriented commitment among SDA faculty members suggests that religious commitment and morale may, to a large extent, operate independently of each other. Although religious commitment was shown to be very solid among SDA faculty members, the study indicates that this type of commitment has its limits and may be unrelated to commitment to a particular institution. Implications of these findings were drawn out for administrators of the SDA Church in the South Pacific and the on-site administrators and faculty at each of the four institutions studied. The study also contributed to the theoretical understanding of the concept of morale and proposed areas for further research.

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Rodriguez, Chalas Rafael. "Continuing education in music ministry of the Atlantic Union Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12606.

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Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
Previous studies of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) music have explored theological foundations, historical roots, and administrative challenges of the music ministry. However, these past studies did not assess the continuing education of the SDA music ministers, or provide Adventist research-based strategies for improving the professional development of SDA music ministers. Thus, this investigation sought to evaluate the continuing education needs of the music ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist churches of the Atlantic Union Conference, consisting of the northeastern states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and the territory of Bermuda. Utilizing a quantitative, descriptive research design, a total of 552 SDA churches were surveyed. The researcher identified, located, and invited 138 music ministers from those churches to complete an online questionnaire. The study investigated music ministers' demographic profiles, educational backgrounds, music and worship practices, and their reported needs for continuing education. Specifically, the study examined music ministers' preferred topics and methods in pursuing continuing education, their perceptions and beliefs regarding the adequacy, effectiveness, relevance, and support of the music ministry, and reported obstacles that prevent them from receiving continuing education. Among other findings, music ministers chose the top three topics they most needed: appropriate music for various worship styles; singing techniques; and where to find literature and resources. Nearly half of respondents preferred to receive continuing education by attending workshops, seminars, and clinics. The top three out of ten reported obstacles to receiving continuing education were time commitments, financial constraints, and unavailable local church funding. Some of the recommendations of the study included increasing offerings of workshops and clinics directed to Adventist music ministers, establishing worship and music offices within the local conferences to support and coordinate music ministry, and providing opportunities for intercommunication among music ministers, such as internet forums that promote collaboration and continuing education. This study has enabled music ministers to reflect upon and express their continuing professional and educational needs as they strive to make greater musical and educational contributions to their churches.

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Unruh, Janie. "Adventist Affiliation and Type 2 Diabetes Pre- and Post-Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP)." Thesis, Walden University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10164834.

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Adventists following a plant-based diet have half the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes than nonvegetarian Adventists. This study used a quantitative, correlational study design to assess if there was a significant difference in type 2 diabetes prevalence rate between Adventists and non-Adventists preprogram, and if there were significant differences in biometrics between Adventists and non-Adventists with diabetes pre- and post-Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP). This study incorporated the social ecological model for its conceptual framework and examined pre- and postprogram changes among Adventists (n=210; 20.1%) and non-Adventists ( n=836; 79.9%) with type 2 diabetes. It used secondary data from participants in the volunteer-delivered CHIP intervention from 2006 to 2012 (n =7,172), a whole foods, plant-based, vegan health program. Analysis showed a significant difference in the pre-CHIP diabetic state between the two groups in step one, but not after controlling for covariates in step two (OR=0.96 and 0.91; CI=1.21 and 1.24). A repeated measures MANOVA analysis indicated that religious affiliation (Adventist or non-Adventist) was the determining factor in improved biometric outcomes pre- and post-CHIP for TC (F(1) = 5.65; p = 0.02), and LDL (F(1) = 5.76; p = 0.02) but not for HDL (F(1) = 0.00; p = 0.99), TG (F(1) = 0.19, p = 0.67), FPG (F(1) = 2.71, p = 0.10), SBP (F(1) = 2.25; p = 0.13), DBP (F(1) = 1.20; p = 0.27), and BMI (F(1) = 1.65; p = 0.20). However, both groups improved post-CHIP in all biometrics. The implications for positive social change from this study showed that CHIP is an effective lifestyle model for improving type 2 diabetes outcomes for both Adventists and non-Adventists, a model that does not involve the use of pharmaceuticals.

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White, William Griffin. "Accreditation of Seventh-day Adventist liberal arts colleges in the North Central Association region of the United States, 1922-1939." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268913.

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Shimray, David Luiyainao. "Educational philosophy in India compared and contrasted with Christian philosophy of education." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Aakre, Bjørn Magne. "Philosophy of education in Norway." 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科技術・職業教育学研究室, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/12379.

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Nanji, Shamas 1951. "Al-Fârâbi's philosophy of education." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55628.

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Nakagawa, Yoshiharu. "Eastern philosophy and holistic education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0027/NQ50065.pdf.

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Olaore, Israel Bamidele. ""Integrating Faith and Learning at a Private Christian University in Nigeria: Patterns of Institutionalization"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194226.

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Institutionalization of curricular or pedagogical innovation or reform occurs at three different levels in an organization, the regulative institutionalization which occurs as compliance by expediency, normative institutionalization which occurs as compliance by moral or legal appropriateness and cognitive institutionalization which occurs as compliance by conceptual correctness. The cognitive level is most the desirable because at that level the values and norms of the organization are manifested in the beliefs and behaviors of individuals in the organization.This research study examined the patterns of institutionalization of integration of faith and learning as a curricular and pedagogical model among faculty members at a private Christian liberal arts university in Nigeria, West Africa. Five patterns of integration of faith and learning emerged from the study compared to eight patterns of institutionalization that emerged in a similar study of four religious research universities in the United States by the team of Ream, Beaty and Lyon (2004). The findings suggest that the level of institutionalization manifested and perceivable in the Nigerian study is at the regulative institutionalization level due to the fact that the beliefs and the behaviors of the faculty members are non-congruent to the expected beliefs and behaviors compatible with the institutionalization of the integration of faith and learning curricular and pedagogical model. Even though the 'fear of God' emerged as one of the dominant themes articulated by some of the faculty members in the study, four other emergent themes articulated the need to find a balance between religious integration and academic excellence. The findings suggest Seventh-day Adventists faculty members struggle between the need to subscribe to the fear of God as a measure for integration and the need to maintain a separation between faith and learning for objectivity in the academy. Being a Seventh-day Adventist male lecturer over the lecturer II rank was found to be a dominant factor in the institutionalization of the integration of faith and learning curricular model at a regulative level at the institution in the study.

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gallego, brady s. "COUNTER-PROPAGANDA EDUCATION: A CRITICAL POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/127.

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Philosophy of education not only forms the background for curriculum construction and pedagogy but there is a connection between epistemology and education within the economic power structure of society in the United States (Aronowitz & Giroux, 1993/1991, p. 88). Public education in the United States often functions as a propaganda delivery system which conserves the economic power structure by use of a conservative and objectivist philosophy of education which instrumentalizes education into vocational preparation, compliance to a governing ideology and uncritical acceptance of knowledge as absolute truth (Aronowitz & Giroux, p. 22). This project aims to construct a philosophy of education which could transform the education system into a counter-propaganda institution with the potential to transform the power structure of society. A critical postmodern philosophy of education which synthesized critical and postmodern philosophies of education would emphasize epistemological skepticism, counter-propaganda knowledge construction and social transformation (Aronowitz & Giroux, p.22). In addition, the project contains a literature review of critical theory, postmodern theory and critical postmodern theory on education as well as theory on a critical postmodern philosophy of history education, philosophy of correctional education and ideas for the implementation of the philosophy of education into specific pedagogical and curricular practices. Attached to this manuscript is a PowerPoint presentation focused on stimulating discussion of this philosophy of education.

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JUNIOR, CARLOS MONTEIRO. "PHILOSOPHY, RHETORIC AND EDUCATION IN ISOCRATES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27940@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A presente tese pretende analisar o modo como a educação filosófica era identificada, pensada e discutida na Atenas do século IV a.C., especificamente em sua interseção com a retórica. Para isso, optamos por utilizar os textos e o pensamento de Isócrates como principal referência, destacando neles os movimentos existentes de identificação da filosofia e de sua educação. Um dos objetivos centrais desta tese é destacar a importância de Isócrates nesse processo de formação da filosofia grega, ressaltando o grande valor dos textos desse autor na análise arqueológica da educação filosófica. A partir desse tema, chegaremos a uma discussão sobre o papel do filósofo na formação dos cidadãos, tema que se tornou bastante frequente nas universidades brasileiras nas últimas décadas após a obrigação legal que inseriu a disciplina filosofia na Educação Básica em todo o país. Acreditamos que analisar esse período embrionário da filosofia, no qual ela foi pensada como um instrumento imprescindível para a formação cívica dos cidadãos, pode estimular reflexões e inquietações acerca do papel dado ao pensamento filosófico na formação dos jovens atualmente, mesmo que sejam outros os valores propostos e o contexto cultural em questão.
This thesis aims to analyze how the philosophical education was identified, considered and discussed in IV century BC Athens, specifically at its intersection with the rhetoric. For this, we chose to use the texts and the thought of Isocrates as the main reference, highlighting the flows identification of philosophy and their education. A central objective of this thesis is to underline the importance of Isocrates in this formation process of Greek philosophy, emphasizing the great value of the texts of this author in the archaeological analysis of philosophical education. From this issue, we will come to a discussion of the philosopher s role in the education of citizens, an issue that has become quite common in Brazilian universities in recent decades after the legal obligation that entered the philosophy discipline in basic education throughout the country. We believe that analyzing this embryonic period of philosophy, in which it was conceived as an essential tool for civic education of citizens, can stimulate reflections and concerns about the role given to philosophical thought in the formation of young people today, even if the values and cultural context in question are others.

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Bitters, Todd Aaron. "The Philosophy of Richard Rorty Interpreted as a Literary Philosophy of Education." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403973904.

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Davison, Trevor. "Marx, freedom and education /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487847761306446.

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Rocha, Samuel D. "Education, Study, and the Person." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1280945814.

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Felderhof, M. C. "Philosophy and religious education : a critical study." Thesis, Swansea University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636966.

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This thesis is a study of a divide in Philosophy, in particular one which pertains to its nature and method. The divide, which is shown to be deep and unbridgeable, is explored through four important topics in the Philosophy of Religion, specifically through: (a) the religious interest in immortality, (b) the understanding of myth as a form of religious communication, (c) the belief in miracles, and (d) the practice of prayer. It shows that depending on which understanding of the nature and methodology of Philosophy prevails, very different views of religion emerge. It further shows that there are serious practical implications (a) for Religious Education in school, and (b) for the legal prescription of an act of worship in school each day. This is due in part to the different views of religion that have emerged from the philosophical discussion, and in part due to the impact of the nature and methodology of philosophy on the way in which these issues are discussed by religious educationalists. For religious educationalists the important outcomes of this study are that reliance on an 'evidentialist' philosophy of religion may render RE indefensible on the school curriculum or invite pupils to become agnostics or atheists. On the other hand, by turning to 'Socratic' philosophy the educationalist is enabled to maintain a degree of impartiality and to invite pupils to deepen their understanding of religious life. Similarly for school worship, the reliance on an 'evidentialist' philosophy of religion turns worship into hypocritical practice but by turning to 'Socratic' philosophy, worship can transform one's understanding of education through the expression of its meaning. For philosophers the study is important because it serves as a reminder of the serious repercussions that their work can have.

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Irwin, Frances Ruth. "Heidegger's threshold : philosophy of environment and education." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5394/.

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The consumerist lifestyle of modernity has had a detrimental impact on the environment. In part, this is supposed by the traditional philosophical conceptualisation of subjectivity, which privileges human subjects from surrounding objects. Concern over our attitude to the environment has been present from the beginning of civilisation and particularly since the emergence of the industrial revolution. This thesis traces a genealogy of these concerns, from the Romantics, to 20th century philosophers such as Heidegger, through the political movements of the 1960-1980s and the recognition of pollution, resource depletion and climate change by pan global organisation from the 1980s to the present day. The changes in epistemology in the wide context of society have influenced the way environmental education has emerged. Philosophy informs the way we understand subjectivity, language, pedagogy, curriculum, and our understanding of the environment. Education also operates in a political context, and the concepts that inform policies permeate educational institutions. Heidegger’s philosophy engages with the scope of the environmental problem, offers a critique of modernity, develops a new conceptualisation of subjectivity and the relationship between humanity and Being, and an analysis of the impact modern technology has mediating that relationship. Heidegger began to develop his ideas on technology during the period between World Wars, in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. His philosophy was influenced by the Romantic Volk movement, and the ideas of Nietzsche, Spengler and Jünger. The tense political surroundings have influenced his thinking, in both constructive and detrimental ways. Heidegger remains one of the most influential philosophers to engage with the framework of technological modernity and its constraints on human subjectivity, and our way of relating to the earth. He challenges traditional ontology and epistemology. He raises the status of poetry from mere lyrical wordplay to means of developing a more authentic relationship between beings and Beings. I make a critical analysis of his philosophy, to distinguish the elements that remain inherently conservative and nationalistic from those that are immanently helpful in throwing light on the dilemma of modern life, and the escalating problem of environmental devastation.

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Walwyn, Peter Frederick. "Hegel's philosophy of education : a re-examination." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1986. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020163/.

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The thesis is that G W F Hegel's 'The Phenomenology of Mind' offers a paradigmatic account of subjective experience that can be used as an explanatory principle in educational theory and practice. This paradigm is most helpful in (a) providing an intrinsically valuable account of the educational process and (b) providing important insights into issues in contemporary education. The starting point of the argument is a critique in which much contemporary educational theory is demonstrated to display a one-sided conception of personhood or subjectivity mainly due to Kantian and Wittgensteinian influences. It is then suggested that the concept of subjectivity in 'The Phenomenology of Mind' offers a more fruitful account of the Self. The philosophical and educational fruitfulness of this notion is then developed in relation to five broad areas. (a) The nature of the educational experience. (b) The Self as a desiring being. (c) The alienated Self. (d) The education of the Self through work. (e) The importance of recognition for the educated Self. This entire development depends upon a clarification of the problems of method and content inherent in 'The Phenomenology of Mind'. Within these broad areas particular issues are examined such as a feminist critique of liberal education, child-centred education, the pragmatic attitude, the love of truth, the relationship between work and education, individuality and the importance of the corporate for education, and the profundity of the educational process in the life of the human subject.

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Taft, William Orville. "Pedagogical implications of hermeneutical philosophy in education." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272272.

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Hughes, Marnie Therese Elizabeth. "Historical imagination and education." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339818.

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Hick, Brian John. "Worship and religious education." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357004.

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This research was undertaken in the light of Foucault's theories and methodologies of language with particular reference to Discipline and Punish as applied to education. The opening section gives a detailed review of these methodologies and the way they will be applied to the various areas of educational practice. There is detailed consideration of the relationship between church and state from the early nineteenth century up until the Education Act, 1944, with particular reference to religious and educational discourse. This is followed by a study of the principles underlying the teaching of religion and the practice of worship in schools prior to 1944. From this the thesis moves to a closer consideration of the 1944 Education Act with the examination of the debate in parliament and in the country as a whole. Most of the evidence for the period is taken from The Times as reflecting the wider use of religious and educational discourse. The thesis then considers the outcome of the 1944 Education Act and the effects it had on religious education until the passage of the 1988 act, with particular reference to the changes in teacher praxis in the nineteen-sixties. Parallel to this is a survey of the main theological developments in Britain between 1944 and 1988 and an assessment of the changes within religious institutions during the same period. Before coming to a detailed consideration of the 1988 Education Reform Act, the thesis considers the changes that took place in teacher praxis between the nineteen-sixties and 1988, and then considers the debate in parliament and in the country during 1988. The final sections are concerned with the implementation of the act, with consideration of the governmental documentation issued to supplement the act and various comments upon these. Fieldwork within Hastings and Sutton has yielded data which attempts to place the research within the context of present praxis in a range of schools. The study concludes with media reaction to the act and an overview of the key points that have arisen from the research.

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Strong, Alejandro C. "The natural education of our America : Jose Marti's philosophy of education /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1328056191&sid=19&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Pierce, Clayton Todd. "Democratizing science and technology education perspectives from the philosophy of education /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1495962521&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Stevens, Philip James. "Education culture and politics : the philosophy of education of Raymond Williams." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1992. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018669/.

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As far as I have been able to discover Raymond Williams's writing on education has not been the subject of an extensive study. This is surprising since Williams's educational writings, although not presented systematically, represent a considerable contribution to thinking about education in the late twentieth century. Since Williams's death in 1988 several articles have been published dealing with specific areas of this aspect of his work (1), but although useful, these provide only the beginnings of an account of Williams's philosophy of education. Williams has been described as the 'single most masterly, original cultural thinker in Britain of the twentieth century' and his work has invoked comparisons with writers of the stature of Sartre and Habermas (2). Of the thirty or so books, hundreds of articles, and radio and television programmes Williams wrote over forty years, most contained a sustained interest in education. Raymond Williams, as Professor of Drama at the University of Cambridge, was an academic. He was also a literary critic, social and cultural analyst, novelist, playwright, and political activist. Most of all, through the medium of his writings, Williams was a teacher. The task of this thesis will be to reveal a theory of education from this substantial and varied body of writing which crossed the boundaries of 'discrete' discourses and subjects. At the heart of this theory is the claim that education and politics are inextricably linked. In the Introduction I outline the major areas of Williams's thought, link these with the development of his professional life and his influence as a teacher, and discuss the difficulties presented by Williams' notoriously complex writing style. In Chapter 1 I identify and discuss the key concept in Williams's writing in relation to education, i.e., culture. Chapter 2 is concerned to examine Williams's writing on education and to link these with the key concept outlined in Chapter 1. The principal aim of Chapter 3 is to identify the major issues which taken together form the basis of a political theory and a theory of political education in the work of Raymond Williams. Chapter 4 is a key chapter in which I attempt to 'translate' Williams's abstract and complex writing style into amore accessible form, through an analysis of his major themes relating to politics and education, i.e., solidarity, community and ecology. Chapter 5 includes a discussion of two examples of educational programmes decisively influenced by Williams's writing, i.e., Cultural Studies and Urban Studies. As a philosopher of education Williams was a generalist; that is to say, he was concerned, in the tradition of Dewey, with broad educational issues. An example of this approach would be the way in which he attempts to link education with democracy. It is in the spirit of this tradition that the thesis is written.

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Steley, Dennis. "Unfinished: The Seventh-day Adventist mission in the South Pacific, excluding Papua New Guinea, 1886-1986. (Volumes I and II)." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1990. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9100749.

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The Seventh-day Adventist Church, incorporated in the United States in 1863, was driven by the belief that it was God's 'remnant church' with the work of warning the world of the imminent return of Christ. When that mission was finished the second coming would occur. In 1886 following a visit by an elderly layman, John I Tay, the whole population of Pitcairn Island desired to join the SDA church. As a result in 1890 Adventist mission work began in the South Pacific Islands. By 1895 missions had been founded in six island groups. However difficulties, both within and without the mission's control, ensured that membership gains were painfully slow in the first decades of Adventist mission in Polynesia. However before World War II the Solomons became one of the most successful Adventist mission areas in the world. After 1945 Adventism also prospered in such places as Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. Education provided the key to the gaining of accessions in a number of countries, while in others a health-medical emphasis proved important in attracting converts. Since World War II public evangelism and the use of various programmes such as welfare, radio evangelism, and the efforts of lay members contributed to sharp membership gains in most countries of the region. Of no small consequence in hindering Adventist growth was the opposition of other churches who regarded them as pariahs because of their theology and 'proselytizing'. Adventist communities tended to be introverted, esoteric and isolationist. Nevertheless Pacific islanders adapted aspects of the usually uncompromising Adventist culture. Unity of faith, practice and procedure was a valuable Adventist asset which was promoted by a centralized administration. After a century in the Pacific region its membership there has a reputation among other Adventists for its continued numeric growth and for the ferver its committment to Adventism. Nevertheless Adventism in the region faces a number of problems and its aim of finishing the Lord's work remains unfinished.
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Delport, Aletta Catherine. "Emotions, social transformation and education." Thesis, University of Port Elizabeth, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/318.

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This thesis addresses the topic of the education of the emotions in the context of a rapidly transforming South African society. It attempts to reconfigure the conceptual landscape in terms of which we think about rationality, social transformation and education, and contests the intellectual and instrumental prejudice in the currently dominant ways of thinking about education. It reclaims a sense of what it would be to think of education in terms of cultivating humanity, as a key to the profound transformation of the South African society. It argues that the emotions should be relocated in our conception of transformation and education, because without it, education will fail to assist South African society to transform into a society where most people are able to live improved quality lives. The thesis comprises three distinct parts. The first part consists of an account of a particular cognitive theory of the emotions, as developed by Martha Nussbaum in her book, Upheavals of thought. The Intelligence of Emotions (2001). This theory is then applied in Part 2 to examine the complexities of social transformation in South Africa at the more profound, personal level. This investigation is presented as a narrative and comprises the perspectives of the author, who is a white Afrikaner female, who grew up in South Africa in the heyday of Apartheid. In the final part, the concept of ‘education for transformation’ is discussed. It is argued that, in order for education to enhance the social transformation of South Africa, social transformation should be conceived according to a fundamental aspect of Rousseau’s political philosophy, namely that the ideal society comprises two reciprocally related spheres, the political and the personal sphere. Part 3 argues that ‘education for transformation’ should be conceived according to a conception of transformation, which acknowledges this double-layered texture. It further argues that ‘education for transformation’ should primarily be concerned with transformation at the personal level, since, according to Rousseau’s philosophy, this dimension is fundamental to ensuring the stability and legitimacy of the political order. However, built on the main insights of Part 2, this thesis also argues that personal transformation is only possible within a framework of rationality, which acknowledges the emotions as constitutive elements of rationality itself. Essentially, this thesis is about the conception of human being, which should be esteemed as the most fundamental and crucial element of successful social transformation.

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Adams, Ian S. "Philosophy, ideology and educational theory." Thesis, Durham University, 1987. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6681/.

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This work is concerned with the nature and scope of ideology. It begins with an examination of the relationship between theory and practice in the relatively uncontentious area of education. An analysis of different kinds of educational theory reveals the nature of the most comprehensive form of such theorising to be problematic. It is argued that a solution to this problem depends upon the solution to the wider problem of the nature of political ideology, to which the discussion therefore shifts. Existing theories of political ideology being deemed inadequate, a fresh start is made by showing how this form of theory combines the descriptive and the evaluative in a particular way and with particular logical consequences. These consequences characterise ideology as a peculiar form of ethical understanding, involving a distinctive way of thinking and having a logical structure of its own. However, these characteristics which make ideology distinctive are not inherently political, and the possibility of there being several different forms of ideology is discussed. With these conclusions it becomes possible to return to the problem of comprehensive educational theory and show that it is composed of a number of forms of ideology, some related to political ideology and some not. The work concludes with some reflections upon the extent to which ideology is an inevitable component of all thinking about human affairs.

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Johansson, Viktor. "Dissonant Voices : Philosophy, Children's Literature, and Perfectionist Education." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-92106.

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Dissonant Voices has a twofold aspiration. First, it is a philosophical treatment of everyday pedagogical interactions between children and their elders, between teachers and pupils. More specifically it is an exploration of the possibilities to go on with dissonant voices that interrupt established practices – our attunement – in behaviour, practice and thinking. Voices that are incomprehensible or expressions that are unacceptable, morally or otherwise. The text works on a tension between two inclinations: an inclination to wave off, discourage, or change an expression that is unacceptable or unintelligible; and an inclination to be tolerant and accept the dissonant expression as doing something worthwhile, but different. The second aspiration is a philosophical engagement with children’s literature. Reading children’s literature becomes a form of philosophising, a way to explore the complexity of a range of philosophical issues. This turn to literature marks a dissatisfaction with what philosophy can accomplish through argumentation and what philosophy can do with a particular and limited set of concepts for a subject, such as ethics. It is a way to go beyond philosophising as the founding of theories that justify particular responses. The philosophy of dissonance and children’s literature becomes a way to destabilise justifications of our established practices and ways of interacting. The philosophical investigations of dissonance are meant to make manifest the possibilities and risks of engaging in interactions beyond established agreement or attunements. Thinking of the dissonant voice as an expression beyond established practices calls for improvisation. Such improvisations become a perfectionist education where both the child and the elder, the teacher and the student, search for as yet unattained forms of interaction and take responsibility for every word and action of the interaction. The investigation goes through a number of picture books and novels for children such as Harry Potter, Garmann’s Summer, and books by Shaun Tan, Astrid Lindgren and Dr. Seuss as well narratives by J.R.R. Tolkien, Henrik Ibsen, Jane Austen and Henry David Thoreau. These works of fiction are read in conversation with philosophical works of, and inspired by, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, their moral perfectionism and ordinary language philosophy.

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Bates, Vincent Cecil. "Moral Concepts in the Philosophy of Music Education." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1082%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Vaughan, Geoffrey. "Political education in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243531.

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Eino, Manal Said. "An Islamic philosophy of education : a procedural framework." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387352.

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Grant, Diane B. "Intergenerational education in the church philosophy and strategy /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Ash, Carisa A. "The theological influences of Luther's philosophy of education." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Long, Jonathan C. "Spiritual education in an educational context." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286649.

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Akulli, Ksenafo. "Education and the Individual: An Exploration of Enver Hoxha’s Philosophy of Education." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1542907739330665.

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Roush, Erik P. "Rethinking Education for Modern Man." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366161337.

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Rico, Jorge E. 1961. "The historical development, philosophical foundation, and mission of the religious education program at Andrews University /." Link to Dissertations, 2008. http://eprint.cc.andrews.edu/23/.

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Brown, Joel 1952. "An integrated view of context: Implications of miscue analysis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289333.

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This is a theoretical dissertation which draws upon insights gained from the theory and data of miscue analysis. It is directed toward resolving the disparity in research interpretations of the influence of context on reading. An integrated view of context is presented through a continuum of inter-related contexts that orients various research foci along a spectrum of narrower and greater contexts. From a continuum vantage, two major relationships are discussed. First, the influence of any defined context focus is qualified by the influence of any greater context. This relationship reveals a problem for factor-based research efforts that seek to identify, on causal grounds, a direct influence for specific factors related to reading, and, the concurrent complications faced by the reader who must deal with the results of factor-based research in the classroom. The second relationship, a connection between different levels of context, is shown as valid only in intra-personal venue. This relationship is analyzed to reveal that knowledge is constructed through the differentiation of experience. The development of knowledge is discussed respective to the work of Kenneth Goodman, Yetta Goodman, Jean Piaget, John Dewey, and Lev Vygotsky. The general recommendation of this dissertation is that the individual reader be treated as an epistemic participant with respect to the development of knowledge.

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Jaworski, Barbara. "Interpretations of a constructivist philosophy in mathematics teaching." Thesis, n.p, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Nemiroff, Greta Hofmann 1937. "From humanistic education to critical humanism : the dialectics of theory and praxis." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59423.

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This thesis articulates the philosophy of The New School of Dawson College, an alternative pre-university Arts programme in a community college in Montreal. The roots of The New School's philosophy are examined and critiqued in the works of: Dewey, the existentialists, popular educational critics of the 1960s, Maslow, Rogers, the humanistic and "Values" educators, Kozol, Freire, Aronowitz, Giroux and feminist educational theorists.
The thesis focuses, however, on the dialectical relationship between theory and praxis in the development of educational philosophy. It describes the process by which various elements to be found in the works of these educational philosophers are tested by and integrated into the pedagogy of the school, contributing to its educational philosophy of Critical Humanism.
This thesis combines philosophical analysis with concrete examples of a praxis which is informed by and, in turn, informs educational theory.

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Carter, Vernon Anthony 1985. "Towards Inquiry Based Education." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11487.

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While John Dewey's work on the philosophy of education provides a robust descriptive account of educational experience, it does not provide anything like a critical system for the analysis of particular educational curricula. This lack has led to a common confusion with regard to the nature of an inquiry based education: inquiry too often becomes the content, rather than the method, of education. In this thesis, I will show how Dewey's analysis of educational experience can provide grounds for a critical apparatus that might be applied to any curriculum, though especially those founded upon the process of inquiry. This critical approach will be applied to an example case, the "ice hands" activity from Douglass Llewellyn's Inquire Within, demonstrating the gap that often exists between the process of inquiry as a description of the process of learning and the process of inquiry as the content of a lesson plan.
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Croft, James. "Free Thinking." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:25499788.

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In this dissertation I offer a justification of the claim that the development of those faculties necessary for autonomy should be a primary goal of public education, available to all children. To do this I 1) place autonomy into the framework of Capability Theory, showing why autonomy is essential to a full concept of human freedom, cleaning up some rough edges in the Capability Theory literature in the process; 2) demonstrate how thinking of freedom in terms of Capability Theory elucidates perennial questions and debates in the Philosophy of Education literature concerning autonomy; and 3) dig deeper into what educating for autonomy in terms of Capability Theory might look like through an analysis of rigor. The questions which will guide my research are as follows: 1. What is "autonomy", and why is it a valuable goal to pursue in education? 2. Why must the state ensure that every child have the opportunity to become autonomous? 3. How can autonomy be developed, through schooling and through life?

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Nixon, Graeme. "The emergence of philosophy within Scottish secondary school Religious Education." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=186764.

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The central research question this thesis seeks to address is ‘what factors have led to the emergence of philosophy within Religious Education in Scottish secondary schools?’ This thesis therefore considers changes in the subject Religious Education within the context of Scottish secondary schools, charting a development towards the increasing use of philosophical skills and content in the course of the last four decades. Before considering the nature, extent and timing of this development this thesis provides a broader context within which to understand educational change in Scotland. Subsequent sections in the review of literature explore the emergence of philosophy in Religious Education and the social, educational and epistemological changes that have precipitated such a development. The emergent hypothesis is that Religious Education has become more philosophical as a result of changes in society (particularly secularisation); changes in education (particularly the move to more democratic and reflective pedagogy), and also as a result of the close relationship between the epistemological areas of philosophy and religious education. This thesis adopts an interpretative research paradigm and considers quantitative and qualitative data drawn from a survey of 126 secondary schools and seventeen key informant interviews. Taken alongside the review of policy and research literature this data demonstrates that the three interlinked hypothetical strands have been at the heart of the move towards more philosophical Religious Education, although other possibilities are also raised and considered. Considering the data collected as a case study in curricular changes also allows the researcher to consider educational policy change in Scotland, particularly in a post-Devolution context. Based on the above findings, this study makes recommendations and suggests areas for further research.

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Duffy, Hugh. "Liberal education and Catholic theology." Thesis, University of Hull, 1989. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5719.

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyse and explain the intimate connection that exists between liberal education and Catholic theology. This is done by analysing the changing patterns of interconnections in the historical and on-going relationship between both. The thesis comprises nine chapters. The first two chapters outline the general principles governing the study. The next two chapters deal with the history of the relationship between liberal education and Catholic theology, beginning with the early apologists via Augustine and culminating in Aquinas' scholastic synthesis. This part of the study describes the synthesis which took place from early Christianity until the fifteenth century. The second part of the thesis deals with the separation of liberal education and Catholic theology, which began during the Reformation, and is discussed in Chapters Five and Six. The consequences of this separation which led to the establishment of a secular system of liberal education, divorced from theology, during the Enlightenment, is analysed in Chapter Seven. The final two chapters of the thesis (Chapters Eight and Nine) deal with the 'Catholic Reaction' to the reformed rational system of liberal education, and the 'Rediscovery' of the comprehensive tradition of liberal education, brought about by the historic revival of Catholic scholarship, initiated by Pope Leo XIII.

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