Logic and language of education

✍ Scribed by Robert H. Ennis

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 275 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0039-3746
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00367797

✦ Synopsis

and others on one or more of the following topics: the nature of logic, the structure of subject matter, the logical stages of children's development, readiness, the logical classification of the verbal acts of teachers, critical thinking, the relation between logic and psychology in teaching, and the ordering of knowledge in a curriculum.

Chapters 6-9 summarize the literature of two types of analysis, which Professor Kneller calls "formal" ,and "informal." Formal analysis is perhaps better known as logical positivism, but informal analysis has no title by which it is better known, though the phrases, "the later Wittgenstein," "ordinary tanguage philosophy," and "conceptual analysis," are often associated with it. Kneller considers the work of people doing philosophy (not applied to education) as well as those explicitly doing philosophy