Teacher education in the "post-critical" environment; Examining Philip Wechsler's post-critical theories as the underlying philosophy of teacher education
Subject Areas :Hamdollah Mohammadi 1 , Rohollah Mozaffari Pour 2
1 - Farhangian University
2 - Farhangian University
Keywords: Post-critical school, critical education, Philip Wexler, Teacher Education,
Abstract :
Philip Wexler's "post-critical" school of education is a tendency in education that tries to criticize the structuralism and post-structuralism in critical pedagogy on the one hand, and presents a positive view of education on the other hand. While preserving the heritage of critical pedagogy, the post-critical school tries to reconstruct it based on the concept of spirituality in order to make it effective for the new needs of the post-modern society. Like Michael Polanyi, Wexler criticizes the de-sacralization in modern education and calls for a "re-sacralization" in social and educational sciences. He believes that post-modern education, like modernism, has failed to realize "optimal being". 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. 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 different aspects of education in the post-critical educational school by using the "concept structure analysis" method and analyze and criticize its results in teacher training.