Education theories
Prof. Gabriella Pusztai, PhD, habil
1. Delineating the Field of Philosophy of Education and basic topics of philosophy of education (ontology, axiology, epistemology, learner, teacher)
Phillips, D.C., 2010, “What Is Philosophy of Education?”, in Bailey et al. 2010: 3–19. doi:10.4135/9781446200872.n1
Phillips, D.C., 1985, “Philosophy of Education”, in International Encyclopedia of Education, Torsten Husén and T. Neville Postlethwaite, (eds.), pp. 3859–3877.
Smeyers, Paul International Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Dordrecht: Springer
2. History of Philosophy of Education
Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg (ed.), 1998, Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives, New York: Routledge.
Browning, Oscar 1881/2014 An Introduction to the History of Educational Theories (Routledge Revivals) London: Routledge
Chambliss, J.J., 1996, History of Philosophy of Education. In: Chambliss, J.J. (ed.), 1996a, Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland. 461–472.
3. Analytic Philosophy of Education
Scheffler, Israel, 2014. Reason and Teaching London: Routledge
Heslep, Robert D. Aanalytic philosophy In: Chambliss, J.J. (ed.), 1996a, Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland. 18-25.
5. The Functions of Schooling
Parsons, Talcott (1961) ‘The School Class as a social system. In Halsey, P., Broadfoot., P. Cross, M. Osborn., D.Abbott (eds.) Education, Economy and Society London, Collier/Macmillan pp 434-455.
Illich, Ivan. 1973. Deschooling Society. Harmondsworth UK: Penguin.
6. Social, Political and Moral Philosophy of Education
Durkheim Émile, 2011. Moral Education. New York: Dover
Rawls, John, 1971, A Theory of Justice, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
7. Epistemology of Education
Carter, J. Adam and Ben Kotzee, 2015, “Epistemology of Education”, Oxford Bibliographies Online, last modified: 26 October 2015.
Kotzee, Ben (ed.), 2013, Education and the Growth of Knowledge: Perspectives from Social and Virtue Epistemology, Oxford: Wiley.
Watson, Lani, 2016, “The Epistemology of Education”, Philosophy Compass, 11(3): 146–159
8. Philosophical Disputes Concerning Education Research
Cartwright, Nancy D., 2013, Evidence: For Policy and Wheresoever Rigor Is a Must, London: London School of Economics and Political Science.
Kuhn, Thomas 1970 Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press