Philosophy of Education: Issues in Epistemology, Ontology, and Axiology

By Petrus Eko Handoyo

Philosophy is the universal and supreme human science. It always talks about all beings, all reality. And its object of investigation is huge. Yet, philosophy always looks into one of the aspects in reality. Accordingly, philosophy is the way to see the reality with a specific approach and field. This book is about the philosophy of education. And education always deals with man. Hence, education is universal. It means that where there is a man, there is an education.

And this book mainly discusses essential matters of education in relation to well-established fields of philosophy: epistemology, ontology, and axiology, and are closely related to existentialism. Finally, our discussion reaches its climax in axiology, philosophy of value. Values are crucial in human life. They may be educational guides, as education and values are interrelated with one another. The aims of education are always associated with values. The educational methods, curriculum, developments, reforms, management, systems, as well as concepts highly reflect the educational values.

Here, we may assert that man, like the concept of a cultural being, is an educational being, because man is inseparable from education. Man creates a specific education and wants to live with it. We cannot imagine how our lives could be disconnected from values and education. We, therefore, could come to believe that our true human existence is concluded in our values and education. Consequently, education may focus on the personal search for the true existential values and the meaning of life in the realization of authentic personhood, existential person.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DV9W4CBZ
• ISBN13: 9798307781753
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"