At home in the world : human nature, ecological thought, and education after Darwin / Eilon Schwartz.

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BF341 .S38 2009

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Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Eilon, 1958-

Language:

English

Imprint:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.

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Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The making of darwinism
Darwin and the good in human nature
Nature's lessons : applying evolutionary theory to educational philosophy in the nineteenth century
From philosophy of nature to educational philosophy
Spencer's educational philosophy
Huxley's educational philosophy
Kropotkin's educational philosophy
Dewey's darwinism : human nature and the interdependence of life
Change and growth are the essential features of darwinism
Human beings can only be understood as part of the natural world
The natural and the social : Dewey's notion of habit
Human beings are by nature social animals and can only be understood through their sociability
Living in the world : democracy as a natural value
Dewey's darwinian educational philosophy
Mary Midgley and the ecological telos
Innate needs
The teleological implications of having needs
Feminism and human nature : a case study in teleological thinking
On building a whole life
Moral objectivity and the reality of evil
Breaking down the is/ought dichotomy
A transcendent life
A darwinian education
The aims and purposes of education : a darwinian perspective
Emotions and reason
Particularism and universalism
From nature to culture : a darwinian curriculum
Cultivating wonder : educational didactics.

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ISBN:

9781438426259
1438426259
9781438426266
1438426267