Teacher Education in the "Post-Critical" Sphere; Examining Philip Wexler's Post-Critical View as an Underlying Philosophy of Teacher Education
Subject Areas :hamdollah mohammadi 1 * , Rohollah Mozaffari Pour 2
1 - Farhangian Uni
2 - Farhangian University
Keywords: Post-critical school, Critical education, Philip Wexler, teacher education,
Abstract :
Philip Wexsler's "post-critical" school of education is a trend in education that tries to criticize the structuralist and post-structuralist tendencies in critical education on the one hand, and presents a positive view on education on the other hand. Like Michael Polanyi, Wexler criticizes the de-sanctification of modern education and calls for a "revival of sanctity" in social and educational sciences. He believes that post-modern education, like modernism, has failed to realize "optimal existence". According to Wexler, the way to cure alienation in today's capitalist world is to create integrity in people's personality through the revival of spirituality resulting from religious and spiritual traditions. According to Wexler, the way to cure alienation in today's capitalist world is to create unity in the personality of people through the revival of spirituality resulting from religious and spiritual traditions. In the perspective of Wexler's post-critical philosophy, the teacher must have a creative spirit and an integrated personality, and this should be given serious attention in teacher training. Although this educational trend has been proposed since the 1990s, it has received less attention than other educational trends. Therefore, the present research aims to analyze the post-critical school of education and its effect on education by using the "conceptual structure analysis" method.