[MD] Sneddon Thesis

[Ant McWatt]

Thanks for pointing that out Chin,

Best wishes,

Anthony


PhaedrusWolff at carolina.rr.com stated December 19th:

>
>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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