If Rome was for centuries the centre of power and influence for Christendom and the
European world of learning associated with it, Brussels can claim to be such a twofold centre …

On what might a comparative discussion of philosophy of education that takes Europe as
one of its terms be based? This paper begins by addressing the complexity that attaches to …

One could argue that the greatest challenge for the philosophy of education today is to stake
its claim amidst the increasing prominence and competitive nature of evidence-based and …

In recent years anti-universalism has become a sine qua non for respectability in philosophy
of education, along with several other disciplines. The standard philosophical view that …

Throughout the last twenty-five years all areas of educational thought have been
preoccupied with the continuing conflict between conservative middle-class dominance of …

The paper highlights the urgent and radical questions and problems which postmodernism
poses for educational studies in general, and the philosophy of education in particular. First …

The article draws on the work of two people, Lawrence Stenhouse and Derek Morrell, who in
the 1960s offered a vision of education based on, first, the moral conviction that a liberal and …

The development of education and schooling in modern times emerged from the priorities of
religion and politics in the sixteenth‐century transition from the Middle Ages to the …

The roots of even the most contemporary philosophy and philosophy of education run deep.
Philosophers return to the ideas of Habermas and Heidegger, of Wittgenstein and Dewey, of …

This paper explores the relationship between European educational thought, colonialism,
and eurocentrism. It argues that pedagogy and contemporary educational thought had their …