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Making Sense of the World
Living, Learning and Teaching with Radical Philosophy of Education
Series: - Education, Culture, and Society, Volume: 6
Making Sense of the World: Living, Learning and Teaching with Radical Philosophy of Education proposes that human knowledge arises from an integrated physical and metaphysical experience involving the continuing social acts of personal and community cultures and languages. It seeks to provide a means of thinking about and acting with the philosophical nature of human existence, so that the daily activities and achievements of all are respected and taken into account. Given the dominance of neoliberal politics and economics in many countries, it is unusual to find the work of educators and practitioners being framed generally by an explicit philosophy of knowledge.
Neil Hooley is Honorary Fellow in the College of Arts and Education, Victoria University, Melbourne, and is an experienced academic and researcher. Within a pragmatist and inquiry paradigm, he has expertise with qualitative methodologies including narrative inquiry, case writing and case study and participatory action research.
Oksana Razoumova is Lecturer in the College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and Information Technology, Victoria University, Melbourne. As a linguist, she has had extensive teaching and research experience regarding the nature of language teaching and learning and its application in educational, employment and community settings.
Oksana Razoumova is Lecturer in the College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and Information Technology, Victoria University, Melbourne. As a linguist, she has had extensive teaching and research experience regarding the nature of language teaching and learning and its application in educational, employment and community settings.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
About the Authors
1 Physics and Metaphysics: Understanding Truth, Reality, Values
â1 Contrasting or Connecting Physics and Metaphysics
â2 Everyday Metaphysics
â3 Metaphysics and Learning
â4 Truth, Reality, Values
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiry: 1
â6 Case 1: Ghost Riders in the Sky
2 Materialist and Pragmatist Philosophy
â1 A Materialist View of Humanity
â2 Pragmatism and Concepts of Being
â3 Humans as Praxis-Beings
â4 Implications for Praxis Schooling
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 2
â6 Case 2: Of Waves and Thoughts
3 Consciousness, Subjectivity and Objectivity
â1 Consciousness, beyond Reach
â2 Interaction of Subjectivity and Objectivity
â3 Dialectics of Knowing
â4 Concepts of Abstract and Other Thinking
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 3
â6 Case 3: Memories of Country
4 Extremities of Positivism, Postmodernism and Neoliberal Policy
â1 Rise and Fall of Positivism
â2 Postmodernism and Knowledge as Contingent
â3 Neoliberalism, for Better or Worse
â4 Policy and Schooling in the Real World
â5 Decolonising Knowledge and Curriculum
â6 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 4
â7 Case 4: Knowledge and Numbers
5 Knowledge: Language and Mathematics
â1 Thinking about Language
â2 Mathematics and the Search for Certainty
â3 Language and Mathematics, Forms of Knowing
â4 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 5
â5 Case 5: Cryptic Conversations at Camp
6 Knowledge: Music and Arts
â1 Music to Think With
â2 Arts and the Aesthetic Condition
â3 Incorporating the Arts into the Matrix of Thinking
â4 Modernity and the Arts
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 6
â6 Case 6: In the Mood
7 Knowledge: Indigenous Meaning of Land
â1 Spiritual Song of the Aborigine
â2 Connections with the Land
â3 Past, Present and Future, the Dreaming
â4 Looking to the Skies
â5 Experiential, Cultural and Metaphysical Understandings
â6 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 7
â7 Case 7: Imagining the World
8 Universal Coherence of Knowing: Society, Knowledge, Pedagogy
â1 Metaphysics in the Modern World
â2 Living Well for Education
â3 Religion and Spirituality
â4 Achievement
â5 Knowledge, Ethics and Educational Acts
â6 Epistemology, Perhaps
â7 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 8
â8 Case 8: That s Not Fair!
9 Human as Discursive Subject
â1 A Metaphysical/Physical Life
â2 Learning and Researching with Praxis Inquiry
â3 Discursive Curriculum
â4 Human as Discursive Subject, the Practice of Experience and Reason
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 9
â6 Case 9: Talking into Thought
Compilation of Personal Metaphysical Inquiries (Abbreviated)
References
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
About the Authors
1 Physics and Metaphysics: Understanding Truth, Reality, Values
â1 Contrasting or Connecting Physics and Metaphysics
â2 Everyday Metaphysics
â3 Metaphysics and Learning
â4 Truth, Reality, Values
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiry: 1
â6 Case 1: Ghost Riders in the Sky
2 Materialist and Pragmatist Philosophy
â1 A Materialist View of Humanity
â2 Pragmatism and Concepts of Being
â3 Humans as Praxis-Beings
â4 Implications for Praxis Schooling
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 2
â6 Case 2: Of Waves and Thoughts
3 Consciousness, Subjectivity and Objectivity
â1 Consciousness, beyond Reach
â2 Interaction of Subjectivity and Objectivity
â3 Dialectics of Knowing
â4 Concepts of Abstract and Other Thinking
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 3
â6 Case 3: Memories of Country
4 Extremities of Positivism, Postmodernism and Neoliberal Policy
â1 Rise and Fall of Positivism
â2 Postmodernism and Knowledge as Contingent
â3 Neoliberalism, for Better or Worse
â4 Policy and Schooling in the Real World
â5 Decolonising Knowledge and Curriculum
â6 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 4
â7 Case 4: Knowledge and Numbers
5 Knowledge: Language and Mathematics
â1 Thinking about Language
â2 Mathematics and the Search for Certainty
â3 Language and Mathematics, Forms of Knowing
â4 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 5
â5 Case 5: Cryptic Conversations at Camp
6 Knowledge: Music and Arts
â1 Music to Think With
â2 Arts and the Aesthetic Condition
â3 Incorporating the Arts into the Matrix of Thinking
â4 Modernity and the Arts
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 6
â6 Case 6: In the Mood
7 Knowledge: Indigenous Meaning of Land
â1 Spiritual Song of the Aborigine
â2 Connections with the Land
â3 Past, Present and Future, the Dreaming
â4 Looking to the Skies
â5 Experiential, Cultural and Metaphysical Understandings
â6 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 7
â7 Case 7: Imagining the World
8 Universal Coherence of Knowing: Society, Knowledge, Pedagogy
â1 Metaphysics in the Modern World
â2 Living Well for Education
â3 Religion and Spirituality
â4 Achievement
â5 Knowledge, Ethics and Educational Acts
â6 Epistemology, Perhaps
â7 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 8
â8 Case 8: That s Not Fair!
9 Human as Discursive Subject
â1 A Metaphysical/Physical Life
â2 Learning and Researching with Praxis Inquiry
â3 Discursive Curriculum
â4 Human as Discursive Subject, the Practice of Experience and Reason
â5 Personal Metaphysical Inquiries: 9
â6 Case 9: Talking into Thought
Compilation of Personal Metaphysical Inquiries (Abbreviated)
References
Index
Making Sense of the World will be of interest to academic scholars and researchers in philosophy and philosophy of education, graduate students researching philosophy of education, school teachers of all subject areas and educational policy makers. It relates to an integrated view of knowledge extending across the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences.