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Thinking with Spinoza, Locke, and Dewey about self-control, education, and democracy

Atli Harðarson
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Atli Harðarson School of Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland   Abstract In the 17th century Spinoza and Locke wrote about education as aiming at self-control. In the 20th century Dewey argued for a similar view in Experience and education, where he described education as enabling people to have control over their own lives. These […]

Full Citation Information:
Harðarson, A. (2024). Thinking with Spinoza, Locke, and Dewey about self-control, education, and democracy. ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, 44(2), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac24.7516
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Educating for Aesthetic Experiences

Laura D’Olimpio

Laura D’Olimpio shares an excerpt from her new book The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum (Bloomsbury, 2024). Educating for aesthetic experiences An aesthetic experience arises from engaging in a particular way – a way that is open and receptive to what is there to be experienced – with […]

Laura D’Olimpio

Dr Laura D’Olimpio is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Birmingham. Laura completed her PhD ‘The Moral Possibilities of Mass Art’ at The University of Western Australia. She is co-founder and co-editor of the open access Journal of Philosophy in Schools. She is also a regular contributor to The Conversation, Philosophy Now magazine, The Ethics Centre, and ABC Radio National’s Philosopher’s Zone and The Minefield. Laura’s first book, Media and Moral Education: A Philosophy of Critical Engagement (Routledge, 2018) won the 2018 PESA (Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia) Annual Book Award.

John Dewey and Chinese Education: A Centennial Reflection by Huajun Zhang and Jim Garrison

This first volume in the Beijing Normal University International Education Series celebrates the centennial of Dewey’s visit to China (1919–1921). Reflecting on the history of Dewey’s visit is critical to understanding China’s modernization and to reevaluating the early efforts of the radical intellectuals in the May Fourth Movement (1919), some of whom were Dewey’s students […]