A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education

Part I. Introduction.- 1. Journeys with Wittgenstein: Assembling Sketches of a Philosophical Landscape.- Part II. Biographical and Stylistic Investigations.- 2. Subjectivity After Descartes: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher.- 3. Wittgenstein as Educator.- 4. Wittgenstein's Philosophy: Viva Voce.- 5. Wittgenstein's Hut.- 6. Slow Learning and the Multiplicity of Meaning.- 7. Elucidation in Transition of Wittgenstein's Philosophy .- 8. Wittgenstein's Metaphors and His Pedagogical Philosophy.- 9. Imagination and Reality.- 10. Do Your Exercises: Reader Participation in Wittgenstein's Investigations.- 11. "A Spontaneous Following": Wittgenstein, Education and the Limits of Trust.- 12. Seeing Connections: From Cats and Classes to Characteristics and Cultures.- 13. Wittgenstein, Cavell and the Register of Philosophy: Discerning Seriousness and Triviality in Drama Teaching.- Part III. Wittgenstein in Dialogue with Other Thinkers.- 14. Wittgenstein's Trials, Teaching and Cavell's Romantic 'Figure of the Child'.- 15. Wittgenstein, Education and Contemporary American Philosophy.- 16. "This is simply what I do.": On the relevance of Wittgenstein's Alleged Conservatism and the Debate about Cavell's Legacy for Children and Grown-Ups.- 17. This is simply what I do too: A Response to Paul Smeyers.- 18. On "the temptation to attack common sense".- 19. Learning Politics by Means of Examples.- 20. Wittgenstein and Foucault: The Limits and Possibilities of Constructivism.- 21. Wittgenstein and Classical Pragmatism.- 22. The Weight of Dogmatism: Investigating "Learning" in Dewey's Pragmatism and Wittgenstein's Ordinary Language Philosophy.- 23. How Should We Recognize the Otherness of Learner?: Hegelian and Wittgensteinian Views.-24. Liberation from Solitude: Wittgenstein on Human Finitude and Possibility.- 25. Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Education: A

Michael A. Peters is a Professor at the Wilf Malcolm Institute for Educational Research at Waikato University, Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Professorial Fellow at James Cook University. He is the executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and founding editor of several other journals, including the Open Review of Educational Research and The Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy. His interests are in education, philosophy and social policy and he has written over sixty books, including most recently The Global Financial Crisis and the Restructuring of Education (2015) and Paulo Freire: The Global Legacy (2015), both with Tina Besley. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ in 2010 and awarded honorary doctorates by the State University of New York (SUNY) in 2012 and University of Aalborg in 2015.
Jeff Stickney, Lecturer, University of Toronto, taught graduate courses in Philosophy of Education and courses for Philosophy teachers training in secondary education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He is the senior author and consultant on the Grade 12 Ontario text Philosophy: Thinkers, Theories & Questions (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2011), building upon his extensive experience of teaching philosophy at Bayview Secondary School (York Re-gion, Ontario). He recently co-supervised a PhD dissertation on Focault in Philosophy of Education at the University of Toronto and is currently serving on a doctoral committee at York University for a dissertation on Wittgenstein. With Michael A. Peters he co-edited the present volume, and with Nicholas Burbules co-edited the Wittgenstein section in the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Springer; Chief editor Michael A. Peters). Stickney presented at the Nordic Wittgenstein Society (Denmark, 2012), the 2015 PESGB Gregynog Conference 'Orientations Towards Wittgenstein' (Wales), and organized panel discussions on