Recommended readings: Philosophy of Education

Philipps, D. C. (2008). Philosophy of Education. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 

https://stanford.library.sydney.edu.au/archives/sum2012/entries/education-philosophy/

In the last twenty years or so resources have become available. There has been a flood of encyclopedia entries, commenting on the field as a whole or on many specific topics not well-covered in the present essay (see, as a sample, Burbules, 1994; Chambliss, 1996; Phillips, 1985; Siegel, 2007; Smeyers, 1994); two large volumes—a “Guide” (Blake, Smeyers, Smith and Standish, 2003) and a “Companion” (Curren, 2003)—have been produced by Blackwell in their well-known philosophy series; and the same publisher recently released an anthology, with 60 papers considered to be important in the field, and which also are representative of the range of work that is being done (Curren, 2007). 

Several encyclopedias of philosophy of education have been published or are in the works (for example, Chambliss, 1996; Siegel, 2008); there is a dictionary of key concepts in the field (Winch and Gingell, 1999), and a good textbook or two (see Noddings, 2007); in addition there are numerous volumes both of reprinted selections and of specially commissioned essays on specific topics, some of which were given short shrift in the present work (for another sampling see A. Rorty, 1998; Smeyers and Marshall, 1995; Stone, 1994); and several international journals appear to be flourishing—Educational Philosophy and Theory, Educational Theory, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Theory and Research in Education. 

Thus there is enough material available to keep the interested reader busy, and to provide alternative assessments to the ones presented in this present essay.

Bibliography

• Apple, M., 1990, Ideology and Curriculum, New York: Routledge, 2^nd. Editon.
• Archambault, R., (ed.), 1965, Philosophical Analysis and Education, London: Routledge.
• Biesta, G., and Burbules, N., 2003, Pragmatism and Educational Research, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Blake, N., Smeyers, P., Smith, R., and Standish, P., (eds.), 2003, The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Brighouse, H., 2000, Social Justice and School Choice, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Burbules, N., 1994, “Marxism and Educational Thought”, in The International Encyclopedia of Education, (Volume 6), T. Husen and N. Postlethwaite (eds.), Oxford: Pergamon, 2^nd. Edition, pp. 3617-22.
• Callan, E., 1997, Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford.
• Callan, E., and White, J., 2003, “Liberalism and Communitarianism”, in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, N. Blake, P. Smeyers, R. Smith and P. Standish (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, pp.95-109.
• Carr, D., 2003, Making Sense of Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Theory of Education and Teaching, London: RoutledgeFalmer.
• Chambliss, J., 1996, “History of Philosophy of Education”, in Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, J. Chambliss (ed.), New York: Garland, pp.461-72.
• Cleverley, J., and Phillips, D.C., 1986, Visions of Childhood, New York: Teachers College Press.
• Curren, R., (ed.), 2003, A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Curren, R., (ed.), 2007, Philosophy of Education: An Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Dewey, J., 1916, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, New York: Macmillan.
• Gellner, E., 1959, Words and Things, London: Gollancz.
• Hardie, C., 1962, Truth and Fallacy in Educational Theory, New York: Teachers College Bureau of Publications.
• Hirst, P., 1965, “Liberal Education and the Nature of Knowledge”, in Philosophical Analysis and Education, R. Archambault, (ed.), London: Routledge, pp. 113-138.
• Hirst, P., and Peters, R., 1970, The Logic of Education, London: Routledge.
• Howe, K., 2003, Closing Methodological Divides: Toward Democratic Educational Research. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• Kaminsky, J., 1996, “Philosophy of Education: Professional Organizations In”, in Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, J. Chambliss, (ed.), New York: Garland, pp. 475-79.
• Kohli, W., (ed.), 1995, Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education, New York: Routledge.
• Kymlicka, W., 1995, Multicultural Citizenship, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford.
• Levinson, M., 1999, The Demands of Liberal Education, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Lucas, C., (ed.), 1969, What is Philosophy of Education? London: Macmillan.
• Martin, J., 1985, Reclaiming a Conversation, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
• Mehta, V., 1963, Fly and the Fly-Bottle: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Murphy, M., (ed.), 2006, The History and Philosophy of Education: Voices of Educational Pioneers, New Jersey: Pearson.
• Noddings, N., 1984, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Berkeley: University of California Press.
• –––, 2007, Philosophy of Education, Boulder, CO: Westview, 2^nd. Edition.
• National Research Council (NRC), 2002, Scientific Research in Education, Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
• O'Connor, D., 1957, An Introduction to Philosophy of Education, London: Routledge.
• Peters, R., (ed.), 1973, The Philosophy of Education, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Phillips, D.C., 1985, “Philosophy of Education”, in International Encyclopedia of Education, T. Husen and N. Postletwaite, (eds.), pp.3859-3877.
• –––, 1987, Philosophy, Science, and Social Inquiry, Oxford: Pergamon.
• –––, (ed.), 2000, Constructivism in Education: Opinions and Second Opinions on Controversial Issues, (Series: 99^th. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• –––, 2003, “Theories of Teaching and Learning”, in A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, R. Curren, (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 232-245.
• –––, 2008, “Empirical Educational Research: Charting Philosophical Disagreements in an Undisciplined Field”, in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, H. Siegel (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.
• Reich, R., 2002, Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Rorty, A., (ed.), 1998, Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives, New York: Routledge.
• Rousseau, J-J., 1955, Emile, B. Foxley, (tr.), London: Dent/Everyman.
• Scheffler, I., 1960, The Language of Education, Illinois: Thomas.
• Siegel, H., 1988, Educating Reason: rationality, Critical Thinking, and Education, New York: Routledge.
• –––, 2007, “Philosophy of Education”, in Britannica Online Encyclopedia, [Available online].
• –––, (ed.), 2008, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.
• Smeyers, P., 1994, “Philosophy of Education: Western European Perspectives”, in The International Encyclopedia of Education, (Volume 8), T. Husen and N. Postlethwaite, (eds.), Oxford: Pergamon, 2^nd. Edition, pp. 4456-61.
• Smeyers, P., and Marshall, J., (eds.), 1995, Philosophy and Education: Accepting Wittgenstein's Challenge, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• Smith, B., and Ennis, R., (eds.), 1961, Language and Concepts in Education, Chicago: Rand McNally.
• Snook, I., 1972, Indoctrination and Education, London: Routledge.
• Stokes, D., 1997, Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Washington, DC: Brookings.
• Stone, L., (ed.), 1994, The Education Feminism Reader, New York: Routledge.
• Ulich, R., 1954, Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Revised Ed.
• Winch, C., and Gingell, J., 1999, Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education, London: Routledge.

Other Internet Resources

• PES (Philosophy of Education Society, North America)
• PESA (Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia)
• PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain)
• INPE (International Network of Philosophers of Education)
• UNESCO/International Bureau of Education: Thinkers on Education