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Five Paradigms for Education: Foundational Views and Key Issues

Part of the The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137391803

ISBN: 978-1-349-48524-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 6, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Why Learn about Paradigms of Education?

Newell, Ted

Pages: 1 –11

[Sets out advantages of studying education foundations or philosophy of education. Historical or narrative presentation avoids unfamiliar abstractions. Explains the book’s thesis that Whitehead’s aphorism, “The essence of education is that it be religious” most fully explains features of the five...
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Chapter 2Traditional Paradigm of Education

Newell, Ted

Pages: 12 –51

[Three examples of traditions which initiate new members by cultivation of their lore and habits: Mende pre-modern education; classical Athenian education in 450 BC; and Hellenistic Jewish education in a diaspora after 586BC. Expositions show a “reverence” and “duty” appropriate to the basic...
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Chapter 3Plato the Revolutionary

Newell, Ted

Pages: 52 –73

[Plato’s Paradigm. Exposition shows a “reverence” and appropriate “duty” for the basic presuppositional (“religious”) values informing Platonic education. Plato wants students to gain sure knowledge of reality in order to re-establish a basis for noble (ethical) civic or political conduct. Use of...
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Chapter 4The Empirical Paradigm

Newell, Ted

Pages: 74 –99

[Exposition shows a central “reverence” and appropriate “duty” for the basic presuppositional (“religious”) values which inform empiricistic education. After Newton, study of phenomena would directly reveal essentials. Empiricists rejected purposefulness in physics and, later, human life in the...
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Chapter 5Rousseau’s Paradigm

Newell, Ted

Pages: 100 –123

[Exposition shows a central “reverence” and appropriate “duty” for the basic presuppositional (“religious”) values informing Rousseau’s educational and political platforms. Rousseau disagrees with empiricist view that self-preservation or bourgeois comfort is enough to integrate human beings in a...
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Chapter 6Jesus’s Paradigm

Newell, Ted

Pages: 124 –144

[Exposition shows a central “reverence” and appropriate “duty” for the basic presuppositional (“religious”) values informing Jesus’s education. Jesus resisted and reconfigured the dominant reality-narrative of his time and place, developing a unique, insightful, and deeply personal approach to...
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Chapter 7Summary: What Is “Education”?

Newell, Ted

Pages: 145 –155

[Reviews recent definitions of education from anthropologists such as Ortner and Varenne, who draw on Geertz, Garfinkel, Ranciere, Dewey, and others to show that culture is maintained and developed by—surprisingly— ignorance and an everyday need to solve problems. Education is development of...

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