. MODERN EDUCATION: FROM RATIONALITY TO REASONABLENESS

Violence: Rationality and Reasonableness

1The influence of the Greek heritage (Hellenism) on human civilization is both indelible and undeniable. One major component of this heritage is the systematic employment of the mind in the pursuit of knowledge, both theoretical and practical –sometimes described as the “rational” or “rationalist” (as opposed to “mythical”) approach of trying to understand the world and to dealing with it. By t...

Abstract rationality in education: from Vygotsky to Brandom

rationality in education: from Vygotsky to Brandom

Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth

For most of human history there existed a well-educated and innovative elite whereas mass education, market R&D, and high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth model for the very long run in which the individual-specific return to education is conceptualized as an compound of cognitive ability and family background....

Distance Learning: Modern Approaches to Engineering Education

Rationality as a Goal of Education

Those who believe education should involve more than learning facts often stress either (a) development or (b) thinking skills. A focus on development as a goal of education typically entails a conception of knowledge as organismic, holistic, and internally generated. In contrast, thinking skills programs commonly assume a mechanistic, reductionist perspective in which good thinking consists of...