Education and Well-Being: An Ontological Inquiry

Dewar, Matthew D.

This book explores how contemporary educational research and curriculum occlude the vital and enduring relationship between education and well-being. Beginning with the consequences of the reductive tendencies of educational research and moving through the consequences of the technical and instrumental tendencies of curriculum, this book challenges how contemporary education as a whole reduces human beings to “things” and funnels them according to predetermined knowledge forms representative of the dominant socioeconomic ideology. Through a philosophical exploration of original conceptions of education and well-being, this book attempts to recover an understanding of education that embodies how we learn to uncover and relate to our own possibilities for a more meaningful life which is a life of well-being.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-08-03

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137602756

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60276-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 116