Open AccessPhilosophical remarks about educational materials
Author(s) -
Elena K. Théodoropoulou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista portuguesa de pedagogia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1647-8614
pISSN - 0870-418X
DOI - 10.14195/1647-8614_55_5
Subject(s) - epistemology , relation (database) , reading (process) , philosophical methodology , sociology , philosophical theory , state (computer science) , philosophy of education , philosophy of science , philosophy , higher education , computer science , law , linguistics , algorithm , database , political science
The connection between a non philosophical work and its reception in education through its transformation into a learning/teaching material and a possible philosophical reading, in order to recognize and define the philosophical stance of this very material, could not but be a challenge for philosophy of education itself, namely, in its relation to (or as) practical philosophy. This kind of reduction to the state of material could instrumentalize the latter raising practical, ethical and methodological issues about the pedagogical intention itself; subsequently, the art, literature, philosophy, and science lying behind materials become equally instrumentalized and evacuated. This article attempts, on the one hand, to circumscribe and describe this movement of “becoming material” as a question philosophically and pedagogically challenging and, on the other, to reflect about a critical understanding of this very question as an example of research in practical philosophy.