FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND SOCIETY | Lecture
Andrea English, University of Edinburgh, on Dewey

Dewey, Existential Uncertainty and Non-Affirmative Educational Theory

Open guest lecture with Prof. Andrea English, University of Edinburgh.

Summary

In this talk, Andrea will discuss Dewey’s notion of the teacher in democratic education. In particular, she focusses on the teacher’s role in supporting productive uncertainty in learning. She will draw on a case of teacher listening in a classroom to illustrate what such teaching looks like in practice. In this concept, she connects Dewey’s thinking about the nature of teaching to a long-standing tradition of non-affirmative educational theory.

The talk draws on this paper at springer.com

Hosts

This guest lecture is organised by the research group Pedagogical-Philosophical Studies of Childhood, Education and Society.