Education as initiation to a “Form of life”: Conceptual investigation and education theory

• Main Author: Gasparatou, Renia
• Other Authors: Γασπαράτου, Ρένια
• Format: Journal (paper)
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Philosophy of education; Wittgenstein; Form of life; Conceptual change; Science education; Φιλοσοφία της παιδείας; Μορφή ζωής; Εννοιολογική αλλαγή; Επιστημονική εκπαίδευση

According to L. Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinians, there is a set of intuitions, propositions and practices that forms the community’s bounds of sense. In this paper I discuss how fruitful this idea can be for education theory. I argue that, although the idea of an existing everyday framework can he...