Where Merleau-Ponty Meets Dewey: Habit, Embodiment, and Education

Autor/inn/en	Thorburn, Malcolm; Stolz, Steven A.
Titel	Where Merleau-Ponty Meets Dewey: Habit, Embodiment, and Education
Quelle	In: Studies in Philosophy and Education, 42 (2023) 6, S.599-615 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Thorburn, Malcolm)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-3746
DOI	10.1007/s11217-023-09897-1
Schlagwörter	Educational Philosophy; Educational Practices; Habituation; Human Body; Language Role; Holistic Approach; Learning Experience; Phenomenology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungspraxis; Menschlicher Körper; Holistischer Ansatz; Lernerfahrung; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie
Abstract	This paper utilises selective writings by John Dewey and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as the conceptual basis for considering how an enhanced synergistic focus on habit and embodiment could support practice gains in schools. The paper focuses on Dewey's belief that established habits can help students to incorporate experiences into evaluations of educational progress and Merleau-Ponty's spotlight on the body-subject, and how it provides a holistic way of conceiving relations that avoid over privileging abstraction and cognition and under-representing the centrality of the body in human experience. We then evaluate the role of language and reflection in relation to habit, embodiment, and education before discussing some of the general educational practice considerations which might improve the quality of students learning experiences. In conclusion, we consider the possibilities for Dewey's pragmatism to function as a theoretical bridge to Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and the nature of experience. We argue that while it is important to recognise points of difference, in relation to philosophical treatments of habit and embodiment, it is also important to consider the overlap and new connections between Merleau-Ponty and Dewey which are valuable to take forward in contemporary education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01