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Education and Well-Being: An Ontological Inquiry

By Matthew D. Dewar (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-137-60275-6, 978-1-137-60276-3
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-60276-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1333479 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XXII, 116\137
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
Educational Philosophy

Description

This book explores how contemporary educational research and curriculum occlude the vital and enduring relationship between education and well-being. Beginning with the consequences of the reductive tendencies of educational research and moving through the consequences of the technical and instrumental tendencies of curriculum, this book challenges how contemporary education as a whole reduces human beings to “things” and funnels them according to predetermined knowledge forms representative of the dominant socioeconomic ideology. Through a philosophical exploration of original conceptions of education and well-being, this book attempts to recover an understanding of education that embodies how we learn to uncover and relate to our own possibilities for a more meaningful life which is a life of well-being.

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