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Education as Initiation into the Space of Reasons
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Siegel, Harvey – Theory and Research in Education, 2012
A long tradition in the philosophy of education identifies education's most fundamental aim and ideal as that of the "fostering" or "cultivation of rationality". In this article I relate this tradition in philosophy of education to recent work inspired by Wilfred Sellars on "the space of reasons". I first offer a very brief overview of the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Role of Education, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking