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Smeyers, Paul – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2012
Time, space, causality, communicating and acting together set limits on our freedom. Starting from the position of Wittgenstein, who advocates neither a position of pure subjectivity nor of pure objectivity, and taking into account what is implied by initiation into the symbolic order of language and culture, it is argued that the limitations on…
Descriptors: Freedom, Barriers, Time, Role of Education
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Barnett, Ronald – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
What is it to learn for an unknown future? It might be said that the future has always been unknown but this question surely takes on a new pedagogical challenge in the contemporary age. Generic skills may seem to offer the basis of just such a learning for an unknown future. Generic skills, by definition, are those that surely hold across…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Emerging Occupations, Epistemology, Basic Skills
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Leopold, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
The aims of education, and the appropriate means of realising them, are a recurring preoccupation of utopian authors. The utopian socialists Robert Owen (1771-1858) and Charles Fourier (1772-1837) both place human nature at the core of their educational views, and both see education as central to their wider objective of social and political…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Educational Philosophy, Imagination, Social Environment