Volume 73

Philosophy of Education 2017

 

Contents

 

Editorial Committee

 

Preface

 

 

Introduction

 

Making Sense of Humanity in a Posthumanist Age

Ann Chinnery

 

Presidential Essay

 

Pulled Up Short: Exposing White Privilege

Deborah Kerdeman

 

From Being “Pulled up Short” to Being “Woke”: The Praxis of Critical Consciousness

Ronald David Glass

 

Teaching as a Hermeneutic Calling

Chris Higgins

 

 

Distinguished Invited Essay

 

Historical Understanding and “The Blemish of Extraordinary Moral Legacies”

Georgia Warnke

 

Philosophy and Its Discontents or How Strange Fruit Became Familiar

Kal Alston

 

 

 

 

Featured Essays

 

 Raising a Human: An Arendtian Inquiry into Child-rearing in a Technological Era

Stephanie Mackler

 

Arendtian Inquiry, Philosophical Method and Parental Responsibility

Natasha Levinson

 

Educating Cyborgs

Ben Kotzee

 

 Cyborgs Forever

Alexander M. Sidorkin

 

Gabriel Marcel and the Possibility of Non-anthropocentric Hope in Environmental Education

Oded Zipory

 

Can Marcel’s hope in mystery really get us to a non-anthropocentric relation to non-human nature in environmental education?

Clarence W. Joldersma

 

 

Essays

 

Radical Discussions: Agonistic Democratic Education

David I. Backer

 

Radical Discussions/Radical Subjectivities

Sarah J. DesRoches

 

Ethical Scholarship and Information Overload: On the Virtue of Slowing Down

Kathy Hytten

 

Enjoying the Wood Paths

Cristina Cammarano

 

 Representation and the Pedagogical Reduction of the World

David Lewin

 

The Resonance of Picasso’s Guitar

Eduardo Duarte

 

Between Games and Play: John Dewey and the Child-Centered Pedagogues

Aaron Schutz

 

Opposing Dualism and Remembering Responsibility

Eric Bredo

 

A Modest Proposal to Address Burden Shifting in Public Schools

Suzanne Rosenblith

 

Legal and Moral Analyses of Educator’s Obligations

Winston C. Thompson

 

Capability and the Obligation of Effective Power: The Global Promotion of Democratic Education for All

Tony DeCesare

 

On Capability and the Obligation of Effective Power

J. C. Blokhuis

 

Queer Replication: Viral Gifts in the 21st Century

Adam J. Greteman

 

“και ίάσασθαι τήν φύσιν τήν άνθρωπίνην”[and curing human nature]: Feminist Countergifts to Bareback and the  Critique of Education as Prophylaxis

Zelia Gregoriou

 

Fabricating The Posthuman Child In Early Childhood Education and Care

Therese Lindgren & Magdalena Sjöstrand Öhrfelt

 

Why Posthumanism Now?

Amy Shuffelton

 

Initiating Children in Language and World: Learning from Dogtooth

Stefan Ramaekers & Naomi Hodgson

 

On Pinning Down a Wor(l)d

Lauren Bialystok

 

The Cheerful Robots of Academia: Intellectual Craftsmanship and the Neoliberal University

J. Todd Ormsbee

 

The Corporate University Killed the Intellectual Craft

Deron Boyles

 

Rethinking Vulnerability in the Age of Anthropocene

Huey-li Li

 

Education for Digital Citizenship

Dan Mamlok and Kathleen Knight Abowitz

 

Capital vs Technology: Are We Shaped by the Device or the Debate?

Trevor Norris

 

R.S. Peters and Posthumanist Ecological Identity

James R. Bigari

 

Becoming an Ecological Self through Contemplative Ways

Heesoon Bai

 

Cultivating Childhood Friendships as an Educative Aim: Virginia Woolf’s Non-Humanist, Humanist Challenge to Philosophers of Education

Stephanie A. Burdick-Shepherd

 

Taking on Woolf’s Non-Humanist, Humanist Challenge

Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon

 

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The Unexpected Alignment of Progressive Ideals and the Commercialization of Education in Entrepreneurial Learning

Johan Dahlbeck & Peter Lilja

 

Entrepreneurial Education and Economic Progress

Rebecca M. Taylor

 

 Education for Civil Society

Hugh Sockett

 

Civil Society and the Priority of Educational Aims

Randall Curren

 

Excellent Sheep or Wild Ducks? Reclaiming the Humanities for Beautiful Knowledge

Naoko Saito

 

Beyond Beautiful Knowledge: Reclaiming the Humanities for the Humanity to Come

Marina Schwimmer

 

Trolling Toward the Human: Cyber Artifacts, Social Justice, and a Queering of Intercorporeality

Matthew Thomas-Reid

 

Starve a Troll: Teaching and Learning in Contexts of Anti-pedagogical Provocation

Cris Mayo

 

To Be at Home: Including Each Human in the Classroom

Cara Furman

 

The Power of Home, and the Home of Power

Ashley Taylor

 

Lyotard and the Sublime Unconscious of Education: Communicative Capitalism and Aesthetics

Derek R. Ford & Tyson E. Lewis

 

Beyond the Sublime, Back to Responsiveness

Paul Smeyers

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Holding the Pieces: Pedagogy Beyond Disruptive Environmental Education

David Chang

 

Deep Ecology and Disruptive Environmental Education

Bradley Rowe

 

 Barefoot in the Kitchen: New Materialism, Education, and Reproductive Labor

Claudia W. Ruitenberg

 

Starving to Death: Reproductive Labor as Ecological-Political Learning

Susan Laird

 

Precarious Meritocracy: On the Affective Structure of Merit in Education

Liz Jackson & Charles Bingham

 

A Meditation on Merit

Barbara S. Stengel

 

Modern Science, Philosophical Naturalism, and a De-Trivializing of Human Nature

Koichiro Misawa

 

 Human Nature and Second Nature

Tone Kvernbekk

 

Freedom & Flourishing in a Posthumanist Age: More-Than-Human Being in Revolt

Sean Blenkinsop, Marcus Morse & Michael De Danann Datura

 

The “Discourse of Invasive Species”: Another Consideration for the Rebel Teacher

Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer

 

Learning from Our Enemies: Human Nature, Democratic Conflict, and the Risks of Dialogue

Rachel Wahl

 

Bridging Divides or Deepening Them? Dialogue under Conditions of Social Injustice

Barbara Applebaum

 

Reconciliatory Empathy Amidst Wild Emotions: Gandhian Nonviolence and Dewey’s Conception of Growth

Peter Nelsen

 

 Reconciliatory Empathy and Tiffany Trump in My Classroom

Susan Verducci

 

Telepresence and the Posthuman: Pedagogical Tact and the Limits of Representability

Norm Friesen

 

With Humanism Like This, Who Needs Posthumanism?

Samuel D. Rocha