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Democratic Values Education Revisited—Moral Realism or Pragmatism?
Author(s) -
Dann Gary
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00130
Subject(s) - pragmatism , democracy , realism , autonomy , moral development , epistemology , sociology , context (archaeology) , moral disengagement , values education , moral realism , moral reasoning , moral education , philosophy of education , moral psychology , pedagogy , politics , philosophy , political science , law , higher education , paleontology , biology
In an article discussing the means by which democratic values education is to be inculcated, Tapio Puolimatka argued that ‘it is possible to educate in democratic values in ways that foster the development of the rational and moral autonomy of children only within the moral realist context’. Examining in detail Puolimatka’s defence of moral realism, we will offer a Rortyan response to moral realism as well as a pragmatist account of democratic values education.