Experimental Philosophy of Education

Experimental philosophers of education design experiments to test how teachers– rather than researchers, scholars, and theorists – think about the philosophical issues and ideas that surround schooling. These experiments test for degree and extent of compatibility between the assumptions researchers make about education and the assumptions teachers make about what they are doing as they go about their daily work. This technique provides teachers with a way to validate, refine, or send back to the drawing board the ideas of educational theorists. Students in this section of research will have the opportunity to articulate the issues they see as most importantly affecting their work as teachers, become conversant on several issues in educational theory, and design and carry out a qualitative research project that assesses the usefulness from the practitioner’s point of view of some theoretical approach to teaching.

Students interested in this section should contact Prof. Seals via email at greg.seals@csi.cuny.edu

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