David Blacker
University of Delaware, Education, Faculty Member
ED440004 - Proceedings of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society, 1997-1998.
Abstract: This examination of fundamental educational questions serves as an excellent introduction to the philosophy of education. It includes persuasive arguments for severing the consideration of education from how well it prepares... more
Abstract: This examination of fundamental educational questions serves as an excellent introduction to the philosophy of education. It includes persuasive arguments for severing the consideration of education from how well it prepares citizens for the marketplace and ...
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ED444956 - Dying To Teach: The Educator.
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... Record Details - EJ538552. Title: Political Liberalism, Technology, and Schooling. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title: Political Liberalism, Technology, and Schooling.... more
... Record Details - EJ538552. Title: Political Liberalism, Technology, and Schooling. Full-Text Availability Options: ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. Title: Political Liberalism, Technology, and Schooling. Authors: Blacker, David. ...
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Liberal proceduralism and religious orthodoxy have long battled across a range of controversies in US education policy. An important setting for these controversies has been the promulgation by courts in recent decades of a robust notion... more
Liberal proceduralism and religious orthodoxy have long battled across a range of controversies in US education policy. An important setting for these controversies has been the promulgation by courts in recent decades of a robust notion of students' rights. A ...
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Long‐neglected as excessively theological or perniciously egoistic, immortality remains an important animating ideal for teaching and learning. Some of the earliest thinking in the Western tradition reflects this, most famously... more
Long‐neglected as excessively theological or perniciously egoistic, immortality remains an important animating ideal for teaching and learning. Some of the earliest thinking in the Western tradition reflects this, most famously Socrates' description of philosophy as ...
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Consider how it makes good common sense to say that a tool is a means to an end, pure and simple: I might use my claw hammer to build a playhouse for my children or to bludgeon an unfortunate passerby; to the hammer it makes no... more
Consider how it makes good common sense to say that a tool is a means to an end, pure and simple: I might use my claw hammer to build a playhouse for my children or to bludgeon an unfortunate passerby; to the hammer it makes no difference. Indeed, even unto the ...
September 11 poignantly illustrates the centrality to our democracy of public servants, including teachers. It also dramatizes how" public servant" is an ennobling and descriptively convincing occupational identity that... more
September 11 poignantly illustrates the centrality to our democracy of public servants, including teachers. It also dramatizes how" public servant" is an ennobling and descriptively convincing occupational identity that teachers should wholeheartedly embrace. In doing ...
... CHAPTER 9. CIVIC FRIENDSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION. Author: Blacker, David. ... Related content: In this: publication; By this: publisher; By this author: Blacker, David. You are signed in as: Google (Institutional account). Group... more
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Abstract Across the political spectrum, traditional models of the relationship between school and society assume what the ancients called idiopragein: a state of affairs in which individual talents and aspirations correspond with societal... more
Abstract Across the political spectrum, traditional models of the relationship between school and society assume what the ancients called idiopragein: a state of affairs in which individual talents and aspirations correspond with societal needs. Even those who sought ...
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This paper develops a liberal contextualist account of schooling that balances institutional autonomy with public accountability under conditions of reasonable pluralism. First a conceptual obstacle is discussed: the tendency to conceive... more
This paper develops a liberal contextualist account of schooling that balances institutional autonomy with public accountability under conditions of reasonable pluralism. First a conceptual obstacle is discussed: the tendency to conceive educational autonomy according to the false dilemma of instrumentalism versus non-instrumentalism. Then an alternative is advanced—the contextualist picture—that places education's institutional autonomy in its proper light. The conclusion raises and then responds to important objections to the contextualist picture.
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... Rights” in Montreal, Canada (June 2000) ably organized by Walter Feinberg and Kevin McDonough and sponsored by the Spencer Foundation and the ... especially those of Bill Lewis at Delaware, and Greg Bynum, Darryl De Marzio, Laura De... more
... Rights” in Montreal, Canada (June 2000) ably organized by Walter Feinberg and Kevin McDonough and sponsored by the Spencer Foundation and the ... especially those of Bill Lewis at Delaware, and Greg Bynum, Darryl De Marzio, Laura De Sisto, Seth Halvorsen, and James ...
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... for censuring idiosyncratic or untraditional behavior or belief.7 But say that some person or group ex-hibits the four hallmarks of fanaticism described above and then wishes to school children in ... Why should fanatics not be... more
... for censuring idiosyncratic or untraditional behavior or belief.7 But say that some person or group ex-hibits the four hallmarks of fanaticism described above and then wishes to school children in ... Why should fanatics not be allowed free reign to educate in a democratic society ...
