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Education Is for Mortals
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- Title: Education Is for Mortals: Perspectives from Dewey and Heidegger
- Author(s): Leland Tyson Anderson
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: New Directions in the Humanities
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Humanities Education
- Keywords: Dewey, Heidegger, Education, Mortality, Technology
- Volume: 14
- Issue: 4
- Date: December 02, 2016
- ISSN: 2327-0063 (Print)
- ISSN: 2327-2457 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0063/CGP/v14i04/29-36
- Citation: Anderson, Leland Tyson. 2016. "Education Is for Mortals: Perspectives from Dewey and Heidegger." The International Journal of Humanities Education 14 (4): 29-36. doi:10.18848/2327-0063/CGP/v14i04/29-36.
- Extent: 8 pages
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Abstract
I argue that Dewey and Heidegger have more in common than is usually thought, and being able to see that education (Dewey) is for mortals (Heidegger) can help us better understand the situation of humanities education today. This point is illustrated with examples taken from an Icelandic story of premodern life and an elementary school class in West Virginia in the fifties.
