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PEDAGOGY IN PRACTICE As leaders of education we have a critical need of understanding learning processes and development. WFTSA are intent on exploring research, at local and national level, to enable collective meaningful conversations, open up debate and allow professional dialogue amongst colleagues. Please join us…..
Monday 11th November 4pm – 5.30pm
Where? Barclay Primary School Canterbury Road, Leyton, London, E10 6EJ Cost?
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Researcher joining us: Dr Judith Suissa, Reader in Philosophy of Education. Insight from Judith:
“I have been looking at the educational role of parents, drawing on work in moral philosophy, the philosophy of childhood and moral psychology to develop a philosophical perspective on upbringing and the parent-child relationship.”
Research being reviewed: “Tiger mothers & praise junkies – praise and the reactive attitudes“ (2013) This research looks at discussions of praising children in contemporary parenting advice. In exploring what is problematic about these discussions, I review some philosophical work on moral praise and blame which, I argue, indicates the need for a more nuanced response to questions about the significance of praise. A further analysis of the moral aspects of praise suggests a significant dimension of the parent-child relationship that is missing from, and obscured by, the kind of parenting advice exemplified by the discussions of praise with which I began.
“Happiness lessons in schools-is it a science?” This is a philosophical critique of the recent trend for "happiness lessons" in schools. I discuss the conceptual and ethical problems involved in the "science of happiness" research paradigm on which this trend is based, and suggest that the underlying values and presuppositions of much of the literature on "teaching happiness" are actually contributing to a distorted and profoundly anti-educational view of human flourishing.
PEDAGOGY IN PRACTICE As leaders of education we have a critical need of understanding learning processes and development. WFTSA are intent on exploring research, at local and national level, to enable collective meaningful conversations, open up debate and allow professional dialogue amongst colleagues. Please join us…..
Monday 11th November 4pm – 5.30pm
Where? Barclay Primary School Canterbury Road, Leyton, London, E10 6EJ Cost?
Your time.
What next?
Register to attend.
WWW.WFTSA.COM
Researcher joining us: Dr Judith Suissa, Reader in Philosophy of Education. Insight from Judith:
“I have been looking at the educational role of parents, drawing on work in moral philosophy, the philosophy of childhood and moral psychology to develop a philosophical perspective on upbringing and the parent-child relationship.”
Research being reviewed: “Tiger mothers & praise junkies – praise and the reactive attitudes“ (2013) This research looks at discussions of praising children in contemporary parenting advice. In exploring what is problematic about these discussions, I review some philosophical work on moral praise and blame which, I argue, indicates the need for a more nuanced response to questions about the significance of praise. A further analysis of the moral aspects of praise suggests a significant dimension of the parent-child relationship that is missing from, and obscured by, the kind of parenting advice exemplified by the discussions of praise with which I began.
“Happiness lessons in schools-is it a science?” This is a philosophical critique of the recent trend for "happiness lessons" in schools. I discuss the conceptual and ethical problems involved in the "science of happiness" research paradigm on which this trend is based, and suggest that the underlying values and presuppositions of much of the literature on "teaching happiness" are actually contributing to a distorted and profoundly anti-educational view of human flourishing.
