TY - JOUR
T1 - Educating Judgment
T2 - Learning from the didactics of philosophy and sloyd
AU - Schaffar-Kronqvist, Birgit
AU - Kronqvist, Camilla
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Teachers in vocational education face two problems. (1) Learning involves the ability to transcend and modify learned knowledge to new circumstances. How should vocational education prepare students for future, unknown tasks? (2) Students should strive to produce work of good quality. How does vocational education help them develop their faculty of judgment to differentiate between better and worse quality? These two ques- tions are tightly interwoven. The paper compares the didactics of philosophy and sloyd. Both developed independently, but their solutions to how one advances the capacity for reflective judgment are similar. Central to this capacity is not merely devising efficient means to work towards pre-existing aims, but to reflect in practice on what one’s aim are and should be. This implies reflection on what future problems, as well as solutions to them, demand of us cognitively, socially and morally.
AB - Teachers in vocational education face two problems. (1) Learning involves the ability to transcend and modify learned knowledge to new circumstances. How should vocational education prepare students for future, unknown tasks? (2) Students should strive to produce work of good quality. How does vocational education help them develop their faculty of judgment to differentiate between better and worse quality? These two ques- tions are tightly interwoven. The paper compares the didactics of philosophy and sloyd. Both developed independently, but their solutions to how one advances the capacity for reflective judgment are similar. Central to this capacity is not merely devising efficient means to work towards pre-existing aims, but to reflect in practice on what one’s aim are and should be. This implies reflection on what future problems, as well as solutions to them, demand of us cognitively, socially and morally.
KW - Philosophy for Children
KW - Sloyd education
KW - teacher’s competence
KW - competence
KW - Faculty of Judgement
KW - Philosophy for Children
KW - Sloyd education
KW - teacher’s competence
KW - competence
KW - Faculty of Judgement
KW - Philosophy for Children
KW - Sloyd education
KW - teacher’s competence
KW - competence
KW - Faculty of Judgement
U2 - 10.5944/reec.29.2017.17207
DO - 10.5944/reec.29.2017.17207
M3 - Article
SN - 1137-8654
SP - 110
EP - 128
JO - Revista Española de Educación Comparada
JF - Revista Española de Educación Comparada
IS - 29
ER -