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(DIS)Locating Meaning: Toward a Hermeneutical Response in Education to Religiously Inspired Extremism
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Panjwani, Farid – Educational Theory, 2023
A key epistemological assumption in the ideologies of many of the groups termed extremist is that there is an unmediated access to a Divine Will. Driven by this assumption, and facilitated by several other factors, a range of coercive actions (including violence) to force others into submission to the perceived Will of God are seen as justified by…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Terrorism, Antisocial Behavior, Criticism
The Emergence of Pragmatic Philosophy's Influence on Literary Theory: Making Meaning with Texts from a Transactional Perspective
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Connell, Jeanne M. – Educational Theory, 2008
In this review essay, Jeanne Connell examines the influence of pragmatic philosophy on the scholarly works of twentieth-century literary theorist and English educator Louise Rosenblatt through the lens of a recent collection of her essays originally published between 1936 and 1999. Rosenblatt grounded her transactional theory of literature in…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods, Literature, English Instruction
A Response to Thomas Pietras: Amos Bronson Alcott and a Transcendental Philosophy of Education
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Ripley, David B. – Educational Theory, 1972
A critical rebuttal of an opinion of Amos Bronson Alcott's educational philosophy. (RK)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Educational Theories
Kuhn, Education, and the Grounds of Rationality.
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Fennel, Jon; Liveritte, Rudy – Educational Theory, 1979
An article by Harvey Siegal, "Kuhn and Critical Thought," is criticized. (JD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Critical Thinking, Intellectual History, Literary Criticism