Childhood and the Philosophy of Education by Andrew Stables, ... - 9781441198334

Childhood and the Philosophy of EducationAn Anti-Aristotelian Perspective\nAuthor(s): Andrew Stables, Anthony Haynes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9781441198334, 978-1441198334\nSynopsis\nPhilosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children (like women, animals, slaves, and e mob) as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. Despite much rhetoric concerning either the sinfulness or purity of children (as in Puritanism and Romanticism respectively), the assumption that children are marginal has endured. Modern theories, including recent interpretations of neuroscience, have re-enforced this sense of children's incompleteness. This fascinating monograph seeks to overturn this philosophical tradition. It develops instead a fully semiotic perspective, arguing that in so far as children are no mo.