Magistra Iadertina, Vol. 8. No. 1., 2013.
Review article
M.WOLLSTONECRAFT ABOUT EDUCATION AS A PART OF FEMINIST ISSUES CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
Milena Radovan Burja
; Odjel za izobrazbu učitelja i odgojitelja Sveučilište u Zadru
Abstract
The article analyses contribution of some feminist concepts to philosophy of education. Although many philosophers questioned the issue of education, only few of them dealt with education of women. Questions related to feminist themes made part of philosophy of education only in the 80-th of the 20th century. The study of educational phenomena, as it has been recognized, became incomplete without integrating ideas and women-experience as equal thinkers, as well as questioning issues of education via feminist critique of patriarchal ways of power, applying arguments which recognized moral, social and political appropriatness of educational goals and the ways of applying the same, taking into account questions of equality in education, issues of justice, also moral and political initiatives in order to stress the need for emancipatory and responsible respect of the possibility of self-realization of each individual, regardless of sex, in order to eliminate varius forms of degradation and inequality in dealing with people.
As a part of feminist strugle for women’s recognition as equal, I would like to point out the importance, and stress the contribution of M. Wollstonecraft, through her critics of Rousseau’s women’s educationu nderstanding, and I must also give credit to some contemporary feminist contributions to these issues, in particular, to the works and activities of the philosopher M.C. Nussbaum.
Keywords
M. Wollstonecraft; J.J. Rousseau; women’s education; equality in education; M.C. Nussbaum; capabililities; feminist contributions
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Publication date:
10.12.2013.
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