Re‐conceptualizing Critical Thinking for Moral Education in Culturally Plural Societies

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ID8857148
AuthorsDuck‐Joo Kwak (0000-0002-8406-9018, a Konkuk University, Korea, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume39
Issue4
Pages460-470
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00353.x
OpenAlexW2056697590
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

This paper critically examines the contemporary educational discourse on critical thinking as one of the primary aims of education, its modernist defence and its postmodernist criticism, so as to explore a new way of conceptualizing critical thinking for moral education. What is at stake in this task is finding a plausible answer to the question of how the teaching of critical thinking in moral education can contribute to leading young people to avoid moral relativism while at the same time to develop a coherent way of responding to cultural pluralism. The paper takes Bernard Williams's concept of ‘ethical reflection’ as a possible candidate and explores this concept as a means of accommodating these concerns

Critical reflection · Critical theory · Critical thinking · Criticism · Cultural pluralism · Cultural relativism · Epistemology · Higher education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Plural · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Relativism · Sociology · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educational Challenges and Innovations · Law · Philosophy · Values and Moral Education

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