Educating Judgment. Learning from the didactics of philosophy and sloyd
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https://doi.org/10.5944/reec.29.2017.17207Keywords:
philosophy for children, sloyd education, faculty of judgment, competenceAgencies:
Research Institute of the Foundation of Åbo Akademi UniversityAbstract
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 questions 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.
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