Past, Present, and Future Possibilities for Philosophy and History of Education

Preface: Paul Smeyers and the Dutch Connection; Bas Levering

1. Introduction: Reminders Assembling a Picture of Paul Smeyers; Stefan Ramaekers and Naomi Hodgson

2. At the Intersection of Anecdotal Stories and Great Narratives: Reflections on the Cooperation between Educational Historians and Educational Philosophers; Marc Depaepe and Frank Simon

3. Seeing the Points of Connection; Richard Smith and Paul Standish

4. The University as Pedagogical Form: Public Study, Responsibility, Mondialisation; Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons

5. Philosophies of Hospitality: Toward Perpetual Peace and Freedom; Lynn Fendler

6. Why, Perhaps, Philosophers of Education (and Other Educational Researchers) 'Leave Everything as it is'; David Bridges

7. Truth 'after Postmodernism': Wittgenstein and Postfoundationalism in Philosophy of Education; Michael Peters

8. 'Plowden' at 50 - R.S. Peters' Response to Educational Progressivism; Stefaan Cuypers

9. Upon the Academic Philosopher Caught in the Fly-bottle; Jean Paul Van Bendegem

10. Postscript: Humanistic Study, Collaboration, and Interdisciplinarity:  A Dialogue on the Leuven Research Community; Nicholas C. Burbules and Lynda Stone

Stefan Ramaekers is Associate Professor in the Laboratory for Education and Society, KU Leuven. He studied Educational Sciences and Philosophy at KU Leuven (Belgium) and obtained a PhD in Educational Sciences in the field of Philosophy of Education about forms of skepticism in educational theory and practices. Over the last years, his research has mainly focused on a critical investigation of the discourse of parenting and the parent-child relationship. Together with Prof. Judith Suissa of the Institute of Education (University College London) he published the book The Claims of Parenting. Reasons, responsibility, and society (Springer). Together with Dr. Naomi Hodgson (Liverpool Hope University) he is currently researching figurations of parenting in cultural representations, such as film. Their book Philosophical presentations of raising children: The grammar of upbringing is forthcoming (Autumn 2018; Palgrave).

Naomi Hodgson is Lecturer in Education Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK, and Visiting Researcher in the Laboratory for Education, Culture, and Society, KU Leuven. Her research, situated in the field of educational philosophy, focuses on the relationship between education, governance, and subjectivity, particularly in relation to the figures of the researcher and the parent. Her current research project, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, is entitled 'The researcher disposition as today's mode of subjectivation: the case of parenting', and she is currently completing the manuscript of Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing, co-authored with Stefan Ramaekers (KU Leuven) and due to be published in 2018. She has recently collaborated with Joris Vlieghe (Aberdeen) and Piotr Zamojski (Gdansk) to write a Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy (Punctum Books, 2018). Naomi is author of Philosophy and Theory in Education: Writing in the Margin (co-authored with Amanda Fulford; Routledge, 2016),