Education between utopia and science
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Utopia. Falsifiability.Pedagogical Project.Abstract
It would not be an overstatement to say that the utopian thinking in pedagogical literature is as old as the field itself, vide the Republic of Plato. In this paper we put forward some arguments that explicit the attraction of this line of thinking in educational literature and its theoretical and social implications. The anthropological as well as the epistemological consequences of the utopical thinking in education are discussed according Karl Popper and Comte-Sponville. The paper concludes its reasoning by delineating the argument that the utopian thinking in education can be dangerous when it leads to the abandonment of gradual solution of complex problems and democratic solutions in name of a more perfect and total transformation of reality that nonetheless is not feasible in the present moment.
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