Knowledge in education: Why philosophy matters

IOE Professorial Public Lecture: In recent years ideas about education have polarised: on one side are those stressing facts and disciplines; on the other, those committed to the encouragement of learners to make their own meaning. By offering a fine-grained account of pedagogic practice and subject knowledge, recent developments in philosophy provide a means of reconfiguring the issue in a manner that transcends this simple opposition. Speakers include: Professor Jan Derry, Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy at the IOE Chair: Professor Becky Francis, Director at the IOE Respondent: Professor Michael Young, Professor of Education at the IOE #IOELectures