Education as a domain of conceptual activity and a field of scientific/scholarly research needs to address the movement from the traumatized subject to subject-as-trauma. This movement and the concomitant conceptual shift in how we ought to understand the subject correspond, in the domain of education, to the "radicalization" of what…

In this presidential address, the author wants to argue that one should imagine the field of philosophy of education to be in or at least moving into a post-institutional moment. He will articulate caveats to this argument and hope that they will clarify his position and not render it timid or less interesting. First, the author wants to be clear…

In the first half of the twentieth century, the ideal of democracy influenced the conceptions people had of the academic subject matters. A common criticism was that abstract academic subjects served aristocratic societies. Although most theorists considered the academic subjects to be important, they had differing views on the conception of…