A philosophical critique of neuroscience and education / William H. Kitchen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kitchen, William H., author.

Series:

Bloomsbury philosophy of education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive learning.

Cognitive neuroscience.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages).

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

Philosophical Reflections on Neuroscience and Education explores conceptual and normative questions about the recent programme which aims to underpin education with neuroscientific principles. By invoking philosophical ideas such as Bennett and Hacker's mereological fallacy, Wittgenstein's the first-person/third-person asymmetry principle and the notion of irreducible/constitutive uncertainty, William H. Kitchen offers a critique of the whole-sale adoption of neuroscience to education. He explores and reviews the role that neuroscience has started to play in educational policy and practice, and whether or not such a role is founded in coherent conceptual reasoning. Kitchen critically analyses the role which neuroscience can possibly play within educational discussions, and offers paradigmatic examples of how neuroscientific approaches have already found their way into educational practice and policy documents. By invoking the philosophical work primarily of Wittgenstein, he argues against the surge of neuroscientism within educational discourse and offers to clarify and elucidate core concepts in this area which are often misunderstood

Contents:

Neuroscience, brain based learning and education

Collaborative reports in neuroscience and education

A local paradigmatic example, founded on an international research phenomenon

The mereological fallacy

First-person

third-person asymmetry

Neuroscience and irreducible uncertainty

Inner and outer : the epistemology of the mind

Inner and outer : the challenges of crypto-cartesianism, materialism and reductionism

Intrinsic and relational models of education

Education, psychology and physics

Bohr's philosophy of physics and its application to psychology and education

A new educational philosophy based on Bohr's interpretation of quantum physics

Conclusions : wittgenstein-bohr model of education.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781474283700

1474283705

9781474283717

1474283713

OCLC:

1012522902