There is a tendency in education theory to place the focus on the consequences of racial hegemony (racism, Eurocentric education, low performance by racial minorities) and ignore that race is antecedent to these consequences. This dissertation explores the treatment of race within critical theory in education. I conduct a metaphysical analysis to examine the race concept as it emerges from the works of various critical theorists in education. This examination shows how some scholars affirm the scientifically discredited race concept by offering racial essentialist approaches for emancipatory education. I argue that one of consequences of these approaches is the further tightening of racial constraints on the student’s personal autonomy. This mandates that critical theorists gain a deeper understanding of race as a problem, conceptually, epistemically, ideologically, and existentially. I argue that critical theorists of education draw from work conducted in the philosophy of race by theorists such as K. Anthony Appiah, Jorge Gracia, Charles Mills, and Naomi Zack to gain insights on the metaphysics of race to better inform theory and praxis. I further recommend the creation of a critical philosophy of race in education to address and combat race as a problem and its consequences. I contend that the groundwork for philosophy of race in education must entail strategies that encourage and assist theorists and teachers to move toward the elimination of the race in society, while utilizing race only as heuristic tool to address its consequences. Additionally, I argue that a philosophy of race in education must advocate for an education for autonomy as a means to racial liberation for students.

In this thesis it is argued that the fundamental goal of education is one of equipping students to think well, that is, to make decisions on the basis of arguments that are both logically cogent and ethically grounded. Moreover, the concern of the thesis is the role social and environmental education might play in fostering both the capability and the readiness to engage widely in such thinking. Drawing on relevant philosophical and psychological theory the study describes the development of an educational programme grounded in the procedures of ethical inquiry and taught via whole-class community of inquiry style discussions. The programme was trialled by way of a large scale, matched intervention study in South Australian upper primary classrooms. The findings from the research project indicate that participation in the programme produced significant gains in participants' logical and ethical reasoning and also that the programme fits within the constraints of prevailing educational structures.

In this thesis it is argued that the fundamental goal of education is one of equipping students to think well, that is, to make decisions on the basis of arguments that are both logically cogent and ethically grounded. Moreover, the concern of the thesis is the role social and environmental education might play in fostering both the capability and the readiness to engage widely in such thinking. Drawing on relevant philosophical and psychological theory the study describes the development of an educational programme grounded in the procedures of ethical inquiry and taught via whole-class community of inquiry style discussions. The programme was trialled by way of a large scale, matched intervention study in South Australian upper primary classrooms. The findings from the research project indicate that participation in the programme produced significant gains in participants' logical and ethical reasoning and also that the programme fits within the constraints of prevailing educational structures.

This thesis deals with philosophical questions, related to modern-day technologies and their impact on the future generations education. It specifically focuses on the paradigmatic transformation of everyday empirical experience (of the world) among people who were born into the digital age. They are called "digital natives", and they feel comfortable in the cyberspace´s infosphere. In terms of the philosophy of education, the "digital dementia" is understood as a principal inability and unwillingness to get out of personalised "bubble universe". The goal of education is (in this thesis) understood as a skill how to perform a personal turn-around and how to actively participate their own "philosophy of life", that means to seek for the meaning of the life and live autonomous and authentic lives.

The thesis is focused on problematics of psychological deprivation in childhood and in old age. Theoretical part reflects Langmeier/Matějček theory of psychological deprivation in childhood, old age and the problematics in terms of philosophy of education. The practical part is and effort to apply developmental psychological theory in childhood to the period of old age. In conclusion the valid assumptions are formed. Those justify to formulate the hypotheses about the analogy between the psychological deprivation in childhood and in old age and the possibilities of education for their prevention and remedy, as materials for the qualitative research. Its outcomes could result in improving the current model of institutional care of the elderly persons and validate legitimacy of the pedagogical accompaniment in the stages of their way of life and so far unappreciated importance of existentialist conception of education.

Esta pesquisa discute a alteração do Ensino Fundamental, gratuito e obrigatório, de 8 para 9 anos. Verificando, quanto se houve modificações ou não do direito democrático frente ao par quantidade e qualidade no Ensino Fundamental de 9 Anos (EF9). Referencialmente, definimos qualidade e quantidade como componentes indissociáveis de uma Educação democrática. Vogamos nos marcos legais e políticos do primeiro estágio da educação escolar brasileira, verificando como estes conduziram a Educação nacional da instrução primária ao novo Ensino Fundamental de 9 (nove) Anos. Verificamos as possíveis modificações do direito democrático de um ensino de qualidade que vem (ou não) se expressando nos 5 Anos Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental (EF) na nova organização escolar dada pelas Leis Federais n°. 11.114/2005 e n° 11.274/2006, pois elas estabeleceram: a obrigatoriedade para o país da matrícula no EF a partir dos seis anos de idade redefinindo a Educação Infantil (EI) à faixa etária de 0 a 5 anos de idade; e a reorganização do EF, com a ampliação em 1 ano de sua duração, passando de 8 para 9 anos. Verificamos as alterações nas matrículas, suas quantidades e qualidades educacionais (do Brasil e do Município de São Paulo) e verificamos o cotidiano escolar de uma escola da rede municipal paulistana sempre analisando as quantidades e qualidades educacionais, isto é, modificações no direito democrático à Educação. E, finalmente, elaboramos algumas considerações políticas e pedagógicas, em uma reflexão cotidiana vivida por professor-pesquisador, do EF9 que num processo em que a política pública do Ensino Fundamental de 9 (nove) Anos não foi introduzida no sistema educacional sozinha e produziu ou acarretou ou elencou outras políticas públicas, concomitantemente conferiu à Educação brasileira um grande dinamismo e trouxe, aos sistemas educacionais, novas situações dado que a cada nova política introduzida se gerou novas demandas (quantidades) que não estavam diretamente direcionadas à melhoria da Educação e estas novas políticas foram geradoras de novas burocracias, novos obstáculos ao direito democrático de um ensino com novas quantidades e qualidades para EI e o EF, este que por muitas vezes para não ter rumo ou apenas perseguir padrões distantes ou artificiais em relações aos estudantes e aos cotidianos escolares. Portanto, podemos afirmar que o Ensino Fundamental de 9 (nove) Anos não tem sido uma política de ampliação das oportunidades educativas, uma ampliação que tenha significado além da entrada das crianças de 6 (seis) anos no Ensino Fundamental; e, também, não tem sido uma política educacional de orientações para novos arranjos qualitativos nas relações pedagógicas. / This thesis is about the change of Brazilian elementary education, free and compulsory, that went from 8 to 9 years. Verifying, as to whether or not there was a change in democratic law in relation to the quantity and quality of the dialectical pair in the new Brazilian Elementary Education called \" Ensino Fundamental de 9 (nove) Anos \" (EF9). We define quality and quantity as inseparable components of a democratic Education.. We have taken on the legal and political milestones of the first stage of Brazilian school education, verifying how they have led the National Education of primary education to the new Basic Education of 9 (nine) Years. We also investigate the possible changes in the democratic right to a quality education that comes (or is not) expressed in the initial 5 years of Elementary School (EF) in the new school organization given by Federal Laws no. 11.114/2005 and 11.274/2006, since they established: the obligation for the country of enrollment in EF from the six years of age to redefine Early Childhood Education (EI) to the age group from 0 to 5 years of age; And the reorganization of EF, with a 1-year extension of its duration, from 8 to 9 years. We verified the changes in the enrollments, their quantities and educational qualities (from Brazil and the Municipality of São Paulo), and during the research we followed the school daily life of a school in the city of São Paulo always analyzing the educational quantities and qualities, ie, changes in the law Education. And, finally, we elaborate some political and pedagogical considerations, in a daily reflection lived by professor-researcher of the EF9 that - in a process in which the public policy Ensino Fundamental de 9 (nove) Anos was not introduced in the educational system alone and produced Or entailed or imposed other public policies, concomitantly - gave Brazilian Education a great dynamism and brought new situations to educational systems, given that each new policy introduced generated new demands (quantities) that were not directly directed to the improvement of Education and These new policies have generated new bureaucracies, new obstacles to the democratic right to a teaching with new quantities and qualities for EI and EF, which for many times not to have or only to pursue distant or artificial patterns in student relations and Of the Brazilian school system. Thus, we can affirm that the 9-Year Primary School has not been a policy of expanding educational opportunities, an extension that has meant beyond the entry of children of 6 (six) years in Elementary School; And it has not been an educational policy of guidelines for qualitative changes in pedagogical relationships.

Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2017-04-18T18:00:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Lelio Favacho Braga.pdf: 1541834 bytes, checksum: 93578e09b6c8524aee2faf098ba6048b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-18T18:00:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lelio Favacho Braga.pdf: 1541834 bytes, checksum: 93578e09b6c8524aee2faf098ba6048b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-01-31 / This thesis aims to investigate the possible impact of the learning of Philosophy in the High School of the Pará state public school and its possible influence on the philosophical formation of Pedagogy students of the Federal University of Pará - UFPA. The case study was used as an investigative method and, as analysis technique, the analysis of content applied to the elements collected in the interviews of the subjects interviewed. The empirical sample of the subjects was composed of five UFPA students, who reported, through a semi-structured interview, their experiences while they were high school students from schools belonging to the State Secretariat of Education of Pará - SEDUC-PA and as students of the discipline Philosophy of Education, already in the Pedagogy Course of UFPA. In the theoretical contextualization of this study, the works of Severino stand out, without prejudice of the other theoretical categories, that are put like sustentation of all the reflective work. In addition to a list of subsidies on the subject in the chosen literature, some courses of preparation of the teaching program of Philosophy practiced in the Schools belonging to SEDUC-PA and of the discipline Philosophy of Education belonging to UFPA were presented, with a dense description of the process On the agenda and advancing subsidies to rethink the training, both in the High School of SEDUC-PA and in the Course of Pedagogy of UFPA. The present work was concluded by explaining the scope of the pedagogical intervention of Philosophy and evidencing its character of Paideia, as well as its limits and possibilities of interference in the education of education professionals. / Esta tesis tiene como objetivo investigar el posible impacto del aprendizaje de la filosofía en la escuela secundaria la escuela del estado de Pará y su posible influencia en la formación filosófica de los estudiantes de Educación de la Universidad Federal de Pará - UFPA. Fue adoptado como un método de investigación, el estudio de caso y como técnica de análisis, análisis de contenido aplicado a los elementos recogidos en los testimonios de los entrevistados. La muestra empírica de los sujetos consistía en cinco estudiantes UFPA, que informaron a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas, sus experiencias mientras eran estudiantes de las escuelas secundarias que pertenecen al Estado de Pará Educación - SEDUC-PA y como estudiantes de la disciplina filosofía de la educación, como el curso de pedagogía de la UFPA. En el marco teórico de este estudio, se destacan las obras de Severino, sin perjuicio de otras categorías teóricas, que se ponen a apoyar todo el trabajo de reflexión. Además de las subvenciones encuesta sobre el tema en la literatura elegido, se presentaron algunos caminos de desarrollo Filosofía del programa de enseñanza practicados en las escuelas pertenecientes a SEDUC-PA y Filosofía de la Educación disciplina perteneciente a la UFPA, realizando una descripción densa del proceso en la agenda y sumando las subvenciones a replantear la formación, tanto en el medio de la educación SEDUC-PA como el curso de pedagogía de la UFPA. Se concluyó este trabajo para explicar el alcance de la filosofía de intervención educativa y mostrando su carácter de Paideia, así como sus límites y posibilidades de interferencia en la formación de profesionales de la educación. / Esta tese visa investigar o eventual impacto da aprendizagem da Filosofia no Ensino Médio da Escola Pública Estadual Paraense e sua eventual influência sobre a formação filosófica dos alunos de Pedagogia da Universidade Federal do Pará – UFPA. Adotou-se, como método investigativo, o estudo de caso e, como técnica de análise, a análise de conteúdo aplicada aos elementos colhidos nos depoimentos dos sujeitos entrevistados. A amostragem empírica dos sujeitos foi constituída por cinco alunos da UFPA, que relataram, mediante entrevista semi-estruturada, suas experiências enquanto eram alunos de Ensino Médio de escolas pertencentes à Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Pará – SEDUC-PA e enquanto alunos da disciplina Filosofia da Educação, já no Curso de Pedagogia da UFPA. Na contextualização teórica deste estudo, destacam-se as obras de Severino, sem prejuízo dos outros categoriais teóricos, que se põem como sustentação de todo o trabalho reflexivo. Além de levantamento de subsídios sobre a temática na literatura escolhida, foram apresentados alguns percursos de elaboração do programa de ensino da Filosofia praticados nas Escolas pertencentes à SEDUC-PA e da disciplina Filosofia da Educação pertencente à UFPA, realizando-se uma descrição densa do processo em pauta e adiantando subsídios para se repensar a formação, tanto no Ensino Médio da SEDUC-PA como no Curso de Pedagogia da UFPA. Concluiu-se o presente trabalho explicitando o alcance da intervenção pedagógica da Filosofia e evidenciando seu caráter de Paideia, bem como seus limites e possibilidades de interferência na formação dos profissionais da educação.

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Doctoral dissertations: Philosophy of Education and Hermeneutics of the Chorismos Author: Zbyněk Zicha ABSTRACT: The dissertation addresses two areas of philosophical thinking, philosophy of education and an area of thinking of chorismos. The task of this dissertation is to indicate the possibility of rethinking their mutual concurrence. The work explores the philosophy of education as idiosyncratic ground of thought capable of receiving inspiration coming from thinking of chorismos. The author was inspired by interpretations of chorismos written with regard to Jan Patocka's thinking. The dissertation starts with an opening (the first chapter.) and with an introduction to problems (2nd ch.). The next chapter focuses on searching for the the meaning, essence and basic opportunities of philosophy of education (3rd ch.) that is followed by preliminary inquiry of hermeneutics of chorismos in relation to the philosophy of education (4th). There is a key section reflecting on the importance of hermeneutics of chorismos for philosophy of education (4.4) in the 4th chapter. Hermeneutics of chorismos is not perceived not only as an interpretation of chorismos, but foremostly as a philosophical inquiry of essential problems of philosophy and philosophy of education thought with regard to problem of chorismos. The...

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