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Analyzing
Controversy -- meanings, facts and values:
distinguishing the conflicts
Authority
& Power -- Why Might doesn't make Right.
Authority, Fact&Value -- Interconnections &
Dependencies
Can Skinnerism Inform Practice? - Misgivings
Can Virtue Be Taught? - What do you mean by "taught"?
Causal
Fallacy in Teaching and Learning
Conceptual or Empirical? -- On what basis do we
judge possible truth: definition or research?
Confirmation Theory: radical empiricist version --
exercises
The
Conjunctive Fallacy: a fallacy itself?-- Is
representativeness irrational?
Cooperation
and Coercion -- In schools, these concepts are often
conflated "for the good of the children," of course.
Counterexamples,
Using -- How to construct them.
Delegitimating Interests: confusing fact and valuation
-- essay
Democracy
vs. Efficiency --Does communication constrain
production?
Doing Violence
to "Violence" -- intention, not merely behavior, is
crucial.
Educational Theory of X -- analytical framework
Educational Theory of
Mortimer Adler Synopsis and references.
Essentialism,
Perennialism, ...etc. Are they philosophy? -- How do
the ISM's help us understand?
Ethical
Issues in Education - practitioner
reflections
The Ethics of
Educational Triage -- Is teaching to the middle moral?
The
Fractalization of Social Enterprise -- unbounded
iterations of consensus, authority, and efficiency
The Functional
Analysis of Behavior: theoretical and ethical limits
Using
the Gallery of Educational Theorists
Generative
Schema. From Question to Thought to Answer -- graphics
for organizing your thoughts
Inquiry
Blockers --
Stultifying further questioning
Hurt,
Harm & Safety -- a confusion that stultifies
"Intelligent
Design," "Unintelligent Curriculum"
Interrogatories
for Analysis, Problem Solving, etc. --consistency in
questioning.
Isomorphism:
identity of structure, process
*Knowledge:
the residues of practical caution.
A
Method for Generating Critical & Criterial Questions --
worksheet -- practical philosophical analysis
Moral
Responsibility in the Education Industry
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Name
Dropping Is Not Enough: faking it with buzzwords
Permissible
School Violence Is There Such?
Philosophy
and Education: what's the connection? -- Is
philosophy just verbiage? Or does it give leverage?
Power in Schooling
Practice: the educational dilemmas -- Why the iron
hand wears a velvet glove.
Does
Public Education Support American Democracy?
Punishment
and Cruelty: - case analysis. These are
interestingly independent.
Questionable
Assumptions in Social Decision Making
Rationales for Intervention -- If you're going to
butt in, know your reasons. Make them good.
Are
Rewards Reinforcers? -- On probabilizing behavior.
Evaluating a Rationale for Intervention:
worksheet
Public
School Reform: a major tactic in America's "hidden" class war.
Reifications
-- dehumanizing slogans
School
Violence, Punishment and Justice -- a conceptual
confusion inflicted on kids.
B. F.
Skinner's Concept of Person
B.F. Skinner's Philosophy of Material Rationalism. Is
this science?
Socializing, Educating and Schooling:- case
analysis. One need not involve the others.
Slogans
-- Nature and Use (graphics)
Slogans
in Education -- semantics and politics in educational
philosophy
Sorting
Philosophies -- an interrogatory for definition
Survey
of Beliefs and Attitudes about Education.
self-survey.
Teaching:
effective, moral, important? - case analysis.
Distinctions often confused.
Teaching
Case Analysis to Achieve Philosophical Consensus --
Examples with instructions
"Thinking"
Like Computers Do? --Is it possible? Is it
good for humans?
Using
a Theory -- essential constraints on thinking
Varieties of Explanation & Cause --
definitions, activity
Violence,
Imposition, Wrongdoing: - case analysis. They
are distinct.
Voluntary Behavior. Can it be conditioned? --
"Controlled" is not "conditioned." Method matters.
What
Can Public Schools Teach? -- Is values education
possible?
Wisdom, Knowledgeability - case analysis
class activity
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