Download

An existential-ontological approach to education with special attention paid to language education

Author(s): Agnieszka Rumianowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

The article discusses the ontological foundations of language education with special attention paid to the essence of language in human existence. After briefly defining what existential philosophy means, the following issues are considered in detail: the concept of existence, being authentic or inauthentic, the problem of choice, ambiguity, curiosity and idle talk as opposed to critical, reflective thinking and finding one’s own voice. In the further part of the article, pedagogical implications arising from the ontological assumptions concerning human existence and language are presented. The guiding idea of the article is the assumption that ignoring fundamental ontological issues in the process of language education deepens the pervasive feeling of emptiness and meaningless of existence and reduces thinking about education to instrumental and pragmatic issues associated with obtaining qualifications and developing language skills.

More...

ANALELE UNIVERSITĂȚII DIN CRAIOVA. SERIA FILOSOFIE

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

The journal appeared in 1976 with the title Annals of the University of Craiova. Philosophy, Sociology, History, and it held this title until 1994. Between 1995 -1996 it was called Annals of the University of Craiova, Philosophy - Sociology Series. Between 1997-1998 it was called Annals of the University of Craiova, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and Pedagogy Series. Between 1999-2005 it was called Annals of the University of Craiova, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science Series. Since 2005 it is called Annals of the University of Craiova Philosophy Series. The journal is edited by the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Craiova and it is printed at the Universitaria Publishing House, Craiova. The journal is biannual (the first issue appears in June, the second in December), and it publishes articles written in Romanian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. The journal publishes philosophical articles. It cultivates the traditional lines of philosophical research (history of philosophy, ontology and metaphysics, social and moral-political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of art, logic, theory of knowledge, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of history, philosophy of culture, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, philosophical anthropology) but is also open to newer trends (applied ethics, philosophy of communication, philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences, argumentation theory, critical thinking, gender studies, philosophy of imaginary, philosophy of education, philosophy of economics, philosophy of law, applied philosophy, theory of social responsibility). In the pages of the journal publish authors from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary,India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, USA. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, Philosopher’s Index, European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH Plus, Philosophy), Regesta Imperii - Akademie der Wissenschaften und der literatur Mainz, ICI World of Journal, EBSCO and Central and Eastern European Online Library - CEEOL.

More...

Download

Antropocenas švietime ir švietimas antropocene: viešasis ir akademinis diskursai apie ateitį

Author(s): Lilija Duoblienė,Justina Garbauskaitė-Jakimovska / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 1/2022

The article analyses the future of education from the perspective of educational philosophy. First, the new peculiarities of the age are discussed, especially the philosophy that made a turn towards posthumanism and the new materialism, setting new goals for education. Then a public discourse study is presented – how the Lithuanian press (the main news portals) responds to the new challenges and sees the future of the Lithuanian school. And finally, the article reflects where the thoughts raised by public discourse lead and how far they reach compared to the new philosophy and challenges for the future.

More...

Download

Apie Jūratę Baranovą: kelionė nuo filosofijos link ugdymo teorijos ir praktikos

Author(s): Lilija Duoblienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 47/2021

Jūratė Baranova-Rubavičienė Lietuvos, o ir užsienio kolegoms gerai žinoma kaip ta-lentinga rašytoja, mąstytoja, filosofė, ypač produktyvi kūrėja: parašė arti dešimties monografijų ir vadovėlių, šimtus straipsnių, kelias dešimtis esė, buvo aktyvi tarptautinių ir nacionalinių projektų dalyvė, skaitė paskaitas, vykdė aktyvią komunikaciją socialiniais klausimais, užsiėmė filmų, teatro ir tapybos bei knygų kritika, be šios veiklos, rožių puoselėjimas ir augintinės Tinos priežiūra – ir visa tai beveik vienu metu. Bendraudama su Jūrate sau pavydėjau, nes visada turėjau tą artimąjį, kuris veda į priekį, motyvuoja, skatina, kitaip tariant, yra pavyzdys, į kurį mačiau prasmę lygiuotis. Kita vertus, nuolat jutau šiokį tokį kompleksą, kad nespėju, nesugebu tiek daug ir taip intensyviai veikti ir kurti. Atlikdavau tris kartus mažiau veiksmų per tą patį laiką. Nepaisant to, vis dėlto išmokau triskart lėčiau sukdamasi stipriai neatsilikti. Jūratė niekada neprieštaravo, nemoralizavo, nepašiepė nei mano darbinio ritmo, nei stiliaus, nei minčių. Atvirkščiai. Bet reiklumo aplinkai ir aplinkiniams niekada neprarado.

More...

Download

Caring for Life before Birth. Pre-Natal Rites of Passage in Hindu Tradition

Author(s): Hilda-Hedvig Varga / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Man is often told that life begins with birth. Hindu tradition is one of those examples that highlight the fact that life begins much earlier, with early stages of pregnancy. We shall not adopt a position from a medical or ethical point of view, but will emphasize this claim judging by the care and effort put into the well-being and good health of foetus and expectant mother by members of this religious tradition from ancient times. Archaic Hindu society was very strongly under the spell of the supernatural and magical, which surfaces in many sacred texts. It is interesting to notice and understand how the supernatural, religious and social intertwine and bring order into the lives of its people.The present paper focuses on pre-natal rites of passage as having an ordering quality in man’s life, mentioning key examples from sacred texts related to cultural and religious details that are the backbone of Hindu tradition. It is a shy attempt to bring to light features in the thought process of the ancient Hindu society in order to better relate and comprehend the treasures of its rich past.

More...

Download

Cosmological and Cultural-Anthropological Turns in the Christian Philosophical Theology: Educational Implications in the Post-secular Contexts

Author(s): Maria Kultaieva,Nataliia Radionova,Lesya Panchenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 26/2021

The article proposes the analysis of the changes in self-understanding of the Christian theology, which is regarded as a hybrid philosophical discipline in the post-secular cultural and social contexts with references to cosmology. This transformation is caused by the cosmological and cultural-anthropological turns in the Christian theoretical theology and its practices, which were enriched with the actual cosmological and philosophical knowledge about human and non-human nature. The new perspectives of philosophical theology are showed with its cultural and educational implications. The psycho-therapeutical potential of philosophical theology is explicated.

More...

Download

DE LA COGNITION INCARNÉE AU CORPS COGNITIVISÉ

Author(s): Patricia Apostol / Language(s): French / Issue: 2 Suppl./2021

The construction of meaning, before being a linguistic or neuronal phenomenon, is a sensitive phenomenon, indebted to the bodily experience of the world, the lived body. Varela’s neurophenomenological approach, which is inspired by the intertwining of the subject and the world as proposed by Merleau-Ponty, can only take in charge an ordinary production of meaning. What about when one produces a concept or a work of art? In other words, how does the body-mind relationship function in the act of creation? If the construction of meaning starts from the subject, in the sense that it is the subject who by his embodied cognitive activity produces meaning, the construction of a concept or a work of art solicits a superpersonal force that engenders the subject himself: a heccéité, in the sense of Deleuze. What does this engendering of the subject mean and how does it intervene in the act of creation? In other words, why must the subject be somehow “recreated” in order to create? It is only when thought is destabilized by a point of crisis that it becomes a creative device that plays out between the chaotic intensities from which it tears itself away and the composition of a consistency. The starting point of the creative thought is the stopping of the thought and its continuation on another plane: a thought that leaves the field of cognition and recognition and derails, carried away by a sensitive line of flight, produced in the body, towards the inorganic and impersonal plane of a super-personal power. With the act of creation, the embodied cognition swings towards a de-subjectivation: the cognition becomes then a “chaognition”, an impersonal faculty mobilizing the power of passivity.

More...

Download

Destruktivni uticaj posthumanističke semiotičke ideologije na akademiju kao arhetipni entitet

Author(s): Igor Ševo / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 36/2021

Aspects of human behavior usually ascribed to the modern age remained fundamentally inviolate during the past several hundred thousand years, but the globally accessible technology of the modern age creates a platform for the emergence of novel selection pressures on the human species, thereby allowing for modification of not only the genetic makeup of a human being, but its phenomenal experience. The globally accessible technology enables semiotic amplification and propagation of an implicit posthumanist ideology, threatening to alter the human being and its consciousness on a phenomenal level. In this paper, I derive an analytical argument that indicates an endangerment of the shared human phenomenal experience, exemplified by analyzing the endangerment of the academic ideal, under the premise of ethical and ontological relevance of phenomenal experiences.

More...

Download

English as a Medium of Instruction in Ukrainian Higher Educational Practices: Challenges and Suggestions

Author(s): Vadym Tytarenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2021

This paper aims to analyze the current situation with EMI (English as a medium of instruction) teaching in Ukrainian universities. The author outlines the main challenges that teachers and students face and provides certain suggestions on how to address the existing challenges, preserve and improve the efficiency of EMI teaching in Ukraine. In the course of the research, the author relies on his own EMI teaching experience and describes and generalises the experience and solutions offered by the colleagues. The author claims that EMI teaching nowadays has become one of the key elements of the strategy for the internationalization of higher education in Ukraine. More and more Ukrainian universities offer EMI bachelor and master programs which are very popular among international students from various countries. However, effective and rapid switch to EMI teaching turns out to be problematic for most of the universities because they are lacking in teachers with sufficient English proficiency and academic mobility experience. To improve the quality of EMI teaching in the nearest future mentioned two features have to be prioritised and supported by the respective higher education institutions. The author also claims that another important factor that significantly influences the efficiency of EMI teaching is the low English proficiency of the international students. Most of the international students have CEFR level B1, which is consistent with the current enrollment requirements of most universities but turns out to be insufficient for the comprehension of most study materials. The author suggests that changing enrollment requirements to CEFR B2 and adding international language certification to it could help to avoid numerous challenges and complications. As the practical suggestion for teaching philosophical subjects in English, the author, generalizing his own EMI teaching experience, describes the possible strategy of curriculum development and provides some recommendations on topic choice and strategies for teaching philosophical courses in English.

More...

Download

EQUAL (EDUCATIONAL) OPPORTUNITIES AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Author(s): Mitja Sardoč / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

In a plurally diverse polity, equal educational opportunities are traditionally associated with different ideals, which are – more or less – unquestioned, i.e. [i] that all individuals have an equal access to appropriate education or qualifications, [ii] that the morally arbitrary factors such as gender, race, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic status etc. do not affect the process in which individuals compete for selective social positions, and [iii] that a certain position is assigned to the best candidate...

More...

Download

EXISTENZERHELLUNG UND SOKRATISCHE ERZIEHUNG. PHILOSOPHISCHE BILDUNG AN DER UNIVERSITÄT BEI KARL JASPERS

Author(s): Péter Sárkány / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2021

The existential enlightenment, which by and large remains untouched in the context of the later reason- and world-philosophical themes of Jaspers’ work, is one of the most important concepts in his philosophy. In my essay, I would like to show the methodological yield of the existential enlightenment for university education and training.

More...

Download

EXPÉRIMENTER LA PENSÉE EN SCHÉMAS-IMAGES. DES ADOLESCENTS S’INTERROGENT « D’OÙ VIENNENT LES PENSÉES ? »

Author(s): Anda Fournel,Jean-Pascal Simon / Language(s): French / Issue: 2 Suppl./2021

Experimenting Thinking in Image Schemas. Teenagers are Wondering “Where Do Thoughts Come From?”. An intellectual view of philosophy as an activity focusing on understanding abstract concepts and their relationships deprives philosophical exercise of the participation of the body and senses. If we reject the mind-body dualism, as Dewey, Johnson, etc. did, then we are constantly engaged in interactions with the world and others, and can thus consider the act of thinking from our own experiences. Inspired by an experimentalist conception of school and life, as well as the method of inquiry developed by Dewey, the Philosophy for Children program provides an inquiry process that invites participants to conceptualize and reason philosophically in a collaborative manner. Do these practices implement an embodied cognition? To find out, we selected a discussion as a case study and analyzed it based on the observation that the issue to be discussed by the participants - “where do thoughts come from?” contains two image schemas: path (come from) and source (where). We have noted a variety and a significant number of expressions (“they come from within”, “they come from what happens outside”, etc.) whose analysis enhances a better understanding of how an experience of understanding the origins of our thoughts fits into the discourse and contributes to a collective conceptualization of “thinking”.

More...

Download

FEN BİLİMLERİ ÖĞRETİM PROGRAMININ EĞİTİM FELSEFESİ AKIMLARI AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ

Author(s): Aslı Görgülü Arı,Kevser Arslan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 53/2020

The philosophy of education, known as a sub-discipline of philosophy, forms a basis for the curriculum, and can affect the decisions made in the teaching process. Philosophy interferes with science education in terms of its effort to reach knowledge. Therefore, it can be said that the relationship between science and educational philosophy is in an important position. In this respect, it was predicted that it would be beneficial to reveal the effect of educational philosophy, which is present in science teaching programs. In this respect, the aim of this study is to examine the science curriculum in terms of educational philosophy. Within the scope of the study, the content of the science curriculum was investigated by targeting the breeding, essentialism, progressivism and reconstruction currents of education philosophy. In the study, the data obtained as a result of scanning the curriculum and educational philosophy literature by using the document analysis method from qualitative research approaches were examined. The data sources of the study are the studies in the current science curriculum and the literature dealing with educational philosophy trends. The data obtained as a result of the document analysis were analyzed by using the descriptive content analysis method. As a result of the study, it was determined that the science curriculum was influenced by the progressivism and reconstructivism currents of the educational philosophy.

More...

Download

Filozofie vzdělávání světa – poznámky k problematice nejen sociální pedagogiky

Author(s): Ladislav Zapletal,Jana Absolonová,Jaroslav Absolon / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 5/2021

The ideas for educating the world to apear repeatedly throughout history, have beanin again formulated different modifications recently. The mankind is becoming powerless due to the loss of general ideas while solving global problems, the problems connected with the spead of sustainable development overal moral devastation, the growth of ecological and ethical global problems. The dictum of commerce has been quite recklessly penetraiding through all the spheres of social life and preventing to solve the problems such as poverty and famine, homelessness, une, unemployment, xenophobia, lokal wors, etc. The stimulus for considering global education and education as one of the significant instruments for solving global problems could be seen not only in helplessness in finding other solutions but also in the succesful design of life-long learning conception. The conception becam a prevailing philosophy in the sphere of education within the last two decades – especially in the sphere of educating the adults – and started to acquire quite particular forms ad different modifications such as the learning enterprise, learning city, learning society. The idea results from the fact that peaple have been living in social relations since the begenning of their existence and the condition for the existence, course of life and happiness could be viewed as their involvement in human community. The proces sis conditioned by the ability of socialization, i.e. the ability of learning and education.

More...

Download

Forgiveness as a method of (self)healing: a procedural-psychological analysis

Author(s): Narcisa Loredana Posteuca-Esi / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2020

Modern psychological approaches include forgiveness as a landmark in the healing process, considering that its benefits do not resume to mind comfort, but it also address to emotional, relational, social and general health issues. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the role of forgiveness as a coping mechanism, but also as a major focus point when dealing with healing strategies. This analytic approach intends to offer a clarified overview concerning the dimensions that forgiveness enact in human life, but also its role and functions within the acceptance – rebalance – reconciliation strategies. Moreover, incorporating this concept in guided healing and self-healing depends on the experimental evidences, but also on a good understanding forgiveness as a process, but also as a final or intermediary objective in therapy is required.

More...

Download

HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS’ SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH CULTURE FORMATION: EASTEN EUROPE, RUSSIA, UKRAINE

Author(s): Viktoriya Tusheva,Anatoliy Guba / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

In terms of educational practice, the formation of research culture and an intensive growth of scientific information involve the development of methodological consciousness and modern scientific style of thinking, which provides in the long run the social determinism of research activities. On the basis of narrative, historical-genetic and chronological methods, the historical aspects of the problem of formation of future specialists’ scientific research culture are covered. The coverage creates a methodological basis for its solution, makes it possible to trace the dynamics of the problem development. It is concluded that still in the eras of Ancient Civilizations and Classical Antiquity the requirement for educating a person capable of searching for the truth, who is able to ‘learn great-mindedness’, came to the fore. The Renaissance Period was characterized by the tendencies aimed at raising the status of an educated person. The main requirements of education of the Enlightenment Period are the cultivation of scientifically meaningful knowledge. The main slogan of pedagogical developments of the first half of the XX century was to apply research and experimental methods. The second half of the XX century was marked by the systematization and generalization of knowledge on the methodology and methods of scientific research.

More...

Download

HUMAN PERSON AND THE METAPHYSICS OF EDUCATION

Author(s): Ike Paul Aghaosa Aghaosa,Philip Osarobu Isanbor / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2021

The nature of the human person as a subject of lived experience and as an indispensable agent of rational knowledge presents to the society the necessity to duly and reasonably educate the individual in order to have proper knowledge of the whole existence. With metaphysics as the Theory of Reality the human society understand that the conceptualization of knowledge is indispensably dependable on the knowledge of the human person, beyond the power of physical/sensible perceptibility. As such, the idea of metaphysics makes the education of the human person very concrete, robust, holistic and integral in understanding the workability of nature, due to the power of the human mind. Adopting phenomenological method of analysis in assessing the implications of metaphysics as a Theory of Reality in education, the paper concludes that the societal integration of the metaphysical imports of education will concretize the realization of integral human development and engineer proper advancement of the society.

More...

Download

Idealism in Education. Tradition and the Present. Selected Approaches and Implications

Author(s): Andrzej Ryk / Language(s): English / Issue: I/2020

The paper present selected approaches to ancient and modern idealistic thought and its ability to influence how we think about education. Idealism has evolved from systemic understanding and interpreting reality to more subjective forms where an idea is rooted within the subject, its consciousness or self-consciousness in the first place. It turns out that idealism understood in such a way can still inspire the way educational activities are viewed. This refers in particular to the following categories: subjectivity, individualism, cognition, understanding, surrounding world, experienced world, mutual infiltration of individuals and systems.

More...

Download

IMPLIKACIJE SKRIVENOG KURIKULUMA

Author(s): Edina Nikšić Rebihić,Višnja Novosel / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian / Issue: 2/2018

In recent years there are often discussions in public sphere regarding the curriculum, its reforms and its content. The stronger influence of the hidden curriculum than the influence of official curricula is neglected. By realization of an official curriculum, social behaviour is created and promoted, as well as the daily life in the classroom is organized and pupils’ educational values transferred. There are many school activities that are directly or indirectly involved in child raising and which, as such, constitute a hidden curriculum. The hidden curriculum is not a part of the official and public programs, although it makes the regulation of pedagogical interaction and refers to implicit practice specific to an educational area. In fact, it defines what students adopt from the values and norms of teachers, school rituals and procedures, from the physical environment, the relationship between the subjects in school, the school culture, and so on. In this paper we will try to present some of the implications of the hidden curriculum, especially by reviewing a teacher who directs the educational process. Because of the impossibility of unambiguous definition, the authors agreed that the hidden curriculum reflects an unnoticed standardization of relationships within the context of the school and that teacher behaviour patterns are of crucial importance. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to define the concept of the hidden curriculum at its conceptual level as well as its content in the context of school culture, teachers’ implicit theory and its ideological framework.

More...

Download

In Search of Peacebuilding Strategies for the Global Civilization: from “Education for War” to “Education for Peace”

Author(s): Serhiy Terepyshchyi / Language(s): English / Issue: 27/2021

The article offers a philosophical view on the problem of strengthening the potential of education in the field of peacebuilding, taking into account both current and future challenges: globalization, local conflicts of various scales, hybrid wars. At the heart of the research is the question: what is the role of education (notably higher education) in these processes? It is proved that, on the one hand, education is a “victim,” one of the components of the humanitarian problem, and on the other - an arena of clash of opposing forces, which embody two phenomena: “education for war” and “education for peace.” The tasks of our research need attention, first of all, to the philosophical context of the problem of ideologizing educational discourse. Communicative ethics was considered as one of the alternatives to ideology. We have demonstrated that communicative ethics is primarily the opposite of modern liberal ideology based on John Rawls’ theory of justice. We outlined the positions of Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas on the concept of communication and mutual understanding. We have summarized Appel’s research, pointing to the basic moral principle of his discursive ethics, which is the regulatory requirement for realizing an ideal communicative community in a real communicative community. Based on the methodological framework proposed by Zvi Bekerman and Michalinos Zembylas, we have proposed three principles of peacebuilding for Ukrainian education: 1) strengthening the analytical tools for research on problematic issues of history, economics, and the current political situation; 2) rejection of stereotypes “we” and “they” in favor of the practice of incremental interaction; 3) implementation of the Ukrainian language in all educational programs, media, and public space.

More...