[MD] Sneddon Thesis

[PhaedrusWolff at carolina.rr.com]

Hi Ant, and all,

I thought you might be interested in reading something Whitehead wrote;

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18835/18835-h/18835-h.htm

Chin



----- Original Message -----
From: Ant McWatt <antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Monday, December 18, 2006 12:35 pm
Subject: [MD]  Sneddon Thesis
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org

> 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.
> 
> ==============================
> 
> 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
> 
> ==============================
> 
> 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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