[MD] Sneddon Thesis

[Ant McWatt]

David Granger asked me to forward the following on:

Some MOQ-discuss folks interested in education might like to know of a book 
["Dewey, Russell, Whitehead: Philosophers as Educators"] by Brian Hendley 
(1986, Southern Illinois University Press) that examines the educational 
theory-building of Dewey, Russell, and Whitehead, noting, in particular, 
that all three, in addition to sharing certain ideas about the relationship 
between philosophy and modern society, formulated theories of education that 
were actually tested at some point.

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I've also noticed an on-line paper by Hendley (the first paragraph is pasted 
below) which examines the relationship between Whitehead's process 
philosophy and education at:

www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2764

Best wishes,

Anthony

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Robert Brumbaugh: Towards a Process Philosophy of Education

by Brian Hendley


According to Robert Brumbaugh, Whitehead’s mature philosophy has important 
implications for education. With his criticism of current commonsense ideas 
of space and time and the influence of seventeenth-century physics on 
twentieth-century metaphysics, Whitehead pointed the way toward a new 
realistic theory of education. "It is an obvious but important theme in his 
writings," says Brumbaugh, "that if education -- or anything else -- is to 
be realistic, it must rest on a correct notion of reality" (WPP 1). In 
Science and the Modern World, Whitehead offered a brief sketch of his 
project for revising American educational theory and practice, but he never 
completed the projected work and left its applications to later scholars...



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