While the world is following with bated breath the difficult negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza and in dozens of universities protests spread over the
While the world is following with bated breath the difficult negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza and in dozens of universities protests spread over the
17/05/2021
Dr Jones Irwin, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Education, School of Human Development was one of the invited keynote speakers for the 2
ND International Conference of Pedagogical Research on the 15
th-16
th May, 2021. The ICOPR conference this year was a virtual one, organized through Universiti Utara, Malaysia and Duzce University, Turkey. Dr Irwin’s presentation was entitled
‘
Developing an Existential Education in Response to the Pandemic’, which explored the resources of the existential tradition in philosophy for contemporary philosophy of education. In particular, the paper explored how the themes of an ‘existentialist’ tradition in philosophy might help us to reimagine our education systems and our world. This existential tradition of thought has always had specific influences on education theory. For example, Paulo Freire’s theory and praxis of education takes its inspiration from the existential philosophies of Sartre, Beauvoir and Fanon