FORM8810 · Education

Philosophy of Formative Education

Lynch School of Education & Human Development

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Christopher Higgins

Professor, Department of Formative Education

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Instructor: 4.8
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Christopher Higgins

Professor, Department of Formative Education

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Instructor: 4.8
Course: 4.5

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Close reading and discussion of philosophical texts that address questions such as: What is the difference between education understood astransmission, as formation, and as transformation? Why does growth require unlearning and what must be unlearned?How do the traditions of spiritual exercise and liberal learning relate to formative education? What expands and contracts our moral horizons? How do our visions of the good inform our identities? What are the conditions of self-knowledge? In what ways do and should learners themselves drive the process of formative education? What roles do dialogue, practice, and tradition play in our formative quests? What are the ethical stakes of formative and transformative education? This is core course in the Ph.D. Program in Formative Education; open to others by permission.

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Term	Evaluations	Course rating	Instructor rating
Fall 2023	2	4.5	4.8