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Downey, Adrian M. – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2023
In this paper, I draw together myriad theoretical and philosophical sources to think through the intensification of emotion amid and emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. I begin with three narratives from my own teaching and learning, which ground the subsequent conversation. I then characterize the current movement in educational theorizing known…
Descriptors: Faculty Workload, Psychological Patterns, COVID-19, Pandemics
Martin, Christopher; Pulvermacher, Andrew – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2022
The pandemic has made the mass remote delivery of higher education more plausible as a general direction for growth in the long-term. Choosing between this general direction and the status quo introduces various ethical dilemmas having to do with the basic aims and values of higher education. A move to remote learning as the institutional norm may…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Educational Change, Pandemics
Burns, David P. – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2022
This analysis will argue that university educators have an ethical obligation to advocate for admission policies that are not exclusively competitive in nature -- what will be referred to later as levelling and remedy approaches. This argument will be detailed in four stages. First, it will use an anecdote and an appeal to virtue to argue that…
Descriptors: Ethics, College Admission, Educational Policy, Competition
Furman, Cara – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2021
This paper takes a philosophically informed approach to what it means to make sense of the world. Specifically, it asks how understanding might be enhanced when we listen to young children who are labelled with disabilities. To address this question, I describe a lesson I taught as a guest teacher in which my understanding of both a rock and an…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Educators, Educational Philosophy
Louie, Dustin William; Gereluk, Dianne – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2021
A continued gap exists in student achievement between Indigenous and non- Indigenous students in the British Columbia school system. This article analyzes the balance of success and failure of the Accountability Framework, a provincial program designed to increase graduation rates in the province. In order to understand the successes and failures…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disadvantaged, Graduation Rate, Canada Natives
Jónsson, Ólafur Páll; Þorsteinsson, Jakob F.; Árnadóttir, Hervör Alma; Gísladóttir, Karen Rut – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2020
The paper describes activities and reflections during and after a four day outdoor education course from the point of view of four educators: a philosopher, an outdoor educator, social work educator and a literacy educator. During the course, various philosophical and educational activities and ideas were put to the test, issues such as slowness,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Literacy Education, Social Work, Counselor Educators
Barrow, Robin – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2019
This essay argues for the urgent need for philosophy as the necessary first step in any educational undertaking. Philosophy is involved with making fine distinctions which are necessary to clarify concepts and terms. The paper focuses primarily on the problems with an overreliance on scientific research in the social sciences, with special…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Social Sciences, Scientific Research, Educational Research
Martin, Jack – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2019
This paper offers a defense of Robin Barrow's main arguments in "Giving Teaching Back to Teachers", including additional material concerning the inability of the aggregate data and statistical methods employed in research in education (and research on teaching) to speak to individual teachers and students or to particular classrooms.…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Social Sciences
Bakker, Colin; Dubensky, Kate; Harvey, Lyndze; McDonough, Graham P. – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2019
In teacher education programs, there is a prevalent belief that having teacher candidates compose personalized 'my philosophy of education' (MPE) statements is a valuable exercise that prepares them for the teaching profession. This paper argues that the prevailing intentions for, and common practice of, assigning these MPE statements to teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers, Educational Philosophy, Constructivism (Learning)