Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas
Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D.
Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada. Sin embargo, mi objetivo aquí es mostrar que las batallas politizadas por la educación no se tratan principalmente de política sino de filosofía. Las batallas políticas toman temperatura, no sólo porque es alto lo que está en juego en la práctica, sino porque afirman o niegan filosofías enteras de vida.
Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020.
Más artículos en español sobre Educación y Filosofía: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/
Original English version: “Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics,” published in the scholarly journal Academic Questions. From the opening:
It is a truism to say that education is politicized. Yet my goal here is to show that politicized battles over education are mostly not about politics but about philosophy. Policy battles are heated not only because the practical stakes are high, but because they affirm or deny entire philosophies of life. What is education’s mission? As teachers our goal is to develop within the child the knowledge, character, and skills necessary for successful living as an adult. That takes us directly into philosophy. If education is about knowledge, then what counts as knowledge, instead of merely having an opinion or a hypothesis? How is it acquired—by observation? reasoning? mysticism? faith?
Or is knowledge impossible? Epistemology is essential to education. If education is about character and preparation for successful living, then what is good character and what is successful living? …
“Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics,” Academic Questions, available here.
Related: My 2019 Clemson University invited lecture, “The Postmodern Attack on Liberal Education.”