This paper explores Camus' view of art and then relates it to the practices of teaching, arguing that artistic teaching is not primarily a matter of technique. (MT)

The role of schools in promoting social reproduction is the focus of unproductive debate among proponents and between adherents and others. This essay is concerned with how this body of theory may become a force for progressive, practical transformation. (MT)

This essay presents three claims: (1) that the educational ideas of Dewey and the pragmatists still have value; (2) that experimentalist ideas are the foundation of democratic school practices; and (3) that aspects of the new developments in educational practice require careful philosophic analysis. (MT)

The author examines the traditional view that male and female differences justify male dominance and female subservience in the social order, discussses arguments against gender free education, and highlights implications of the traditional view for classroom practice. (MT)

In order to understand fully his educational prescriptions, we need to grasp the relationship between Rousseau's political and educational philosophies. This paper reexamines selected educational ideas from the perspective of Rousseau's social thought, with particular emphasis on his theory of human nature and his views regarding freedom and…

This paper analyzes and critiques the assumptions that underlie faculty productivity assessments made of professors of education in American colleges and universities. Alternative explanations for this movement will also be addressed. (MT)

In 1979 in Israel, the Education for Peace Project on the Basis of Martin Buber's Philosophy was begun by Dr. Haim Gordon, incorporating Buberian Learning Groups as its cornerstone. This paper argues that Dr. Gordon departs from Buberian philosophy and imperils the success of his innovative pedagogy for peace. A response by Haim Gordon is offered.…

This article analyzes how the state, in promoting modernization, undermines the symbolic underpinnings of traditional cultures. The public schools strengthen the process of nihilism by reproducing in the consciousness of students the concepts and assumptions necessary to modernization. (MT)

The author proposes a theory of power which explains important features of social and political life from the point of view that a more democratic and equalitarian organization of society is possible and desirable, and that education can play a role in attaining that kind of society. (MT)

A method for teaching social philosophy is described. (CK)

Describes the brief but educationally significant communitarian social experiment at New Harmony, Indiana, from 1825 to 1828. (Author/MB)

An examination of the "Theaetetus" offers Plato's educational philosophy regarding teachers, the occupation of teaching, and the teacher student relationship. (CB)

This article discusses Freud's original psychoanalytic notions on women and morality and their influence on constructions of personality, power, culture, and socioeducational change. Also discussed is Freudian critic Alfred Adler's use of a larger external lens to focus women's lives in a wider context of "social interest" and social…