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

Atli Harðarson

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 […]

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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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Histories of Philosophies of Childhoods

Lessons for the new normality of a post-Covid world?

Marek Tesar

Children grow up, play and learn differently in diverse cultures and societies, and live very different childhoods. These differences are, in part, where the philosophical questions of who is a child and what is childhood start. Such questions are at the heart of the Philosophy of Childhood. It is now commonly accepted that different societies […]

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Tesar, M. (2021). Histories of Philosophies of Childhoods: Lessons for the new normality of a post-Covid world?. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/histories-of-philosophies-of-childhoods/

Marek Tesar

Marek Tesar, Associate Professor and Associate Dean International at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, is a deputy editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and Access: Contemporary Issues in  Education, and President of PESA. His research is focused on philosophical methods, childhood studies and early childhood education, the construction of childhoods, notions of place/space, and methodological and philosophical thinking around ontologies and the ethics of researching these notions.