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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Engagement, expression, and initiation

Casey Doyle

pp. 467-479

Abstract

According to what has been called a "Transformational" account of education , a child comes to possess rational and conceptual capacities as a result of initiation into culture or a "form of life." I consider how we must understand the engagement with other minds involved in education if we are to make sense of the Transformational view. I argue that Wittgenstein's discussions of perceiving and mimicking other minds provide the resources to respond to worries one might have with the idea that a genuine meeting of minds can occur in education prior to the acquisition of sophisticated capacities for reasoning.

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Peters Michael A., Stickney Jeff (2017) A companion to Wittgenstein on education: pedagogical investigations. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 467-479

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6_31

Full citation:

Doyle Casey (2017) „Engagement, expression, and initiation“, In: M. A. Peters & J. Stickney (eds.), A companion to Wittgenstein on education, Dordrecht, Springer, 467–479.