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Rousseau as Progressive Instrumentalist
Author(s) -
DARLING JOHN
Publication year - 1993
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/j.1467-9752.1993.tb00294.x
Subject(s) - instrumentalism , philosophy of education , sociology , higher education , social science , epistemology , philosophy , law , political science
In Emile Rousseau emphasises four pedagogical principles which have become associated with child‐centred education. Rousseau's conception of education, however, is utilitarian. This combination of principles and overall conception anticipates one particular strand of policy thinking today: the ‘new vocationalism’. As a postscript, this paper asks why little work in the history of philosophy of education has been done, and identifies the early arguments of R. S. Peters as responsible for this failure.