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Roy Bhaskar

A Theory of Education

  • Contains original material by one of the most important philosophers of the last hundred years
  • Contains an outline of an important and original educational philosophy
  • Contains a critical appraisal of this educational philosophy
  • Addresses a series of key issues such as intentionality, learning and the formation of the self
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education (BRIEFSKEY)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Roy Bhaskar—A Short Biography

    • David Scott, Roy Bhaskar
    Pages 1-14
  3. Being and Knowing

    • David Scott, Roy Bhaskar
    Pages 15-28
  4. Knowledge, Learning and Change

    • David Scott, Roy Bhaskar
    Pages 29-41
  5. Interdisciplinarity and Laminated Systems

    • David Scott, Roy Bhaskar
    Pages 43-46
  6. Notes on a Theory of Education and Learning

    • David Scott, Roy Bhaskar
    Pages 61-74
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 75-82

About this book

This book provides an account of an original educational philosophy, developed by one of the most significant philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Roy Bhaskar. Though he directed his attention to wider matters than education, his philosophy has implications for the way we can understand how the world is structured and in turn how we can transform it to accommodate a desire for a better arrangement of resources for human well-being. It is thus both a theory of mind and world and in addition, a theory of education. Roy Bhaskar’s philosophy has a view on the following important matters: intentionality, agential capacity, materialism, the possibility of describing and changing the world, progression, education and the lifecourse, essentialism and human nature, pedagogy, knowledge and knowledge-development, the formation of the self, curricular aims and objectives, being with other people, the self in the learning process, the relationship between the self (or agency) and the environment, stratification, emergence, representation and its different modes, structures and mechanisms, the dialectic and criticality.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University College London, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom

    David Scott

  • University College of London, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom

    Roy Bhaskar

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eBook USD 49.99
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Softcover Book USD 64.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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