Table Of ContentPopper’s Approach to Education
Challenging the theory of induction in teacher education, this book
proposes a knowledge-building framework based on the critical rationalism
of philosopher of science, Karl Popper. The Objective Knowledge Growth
Framework developed in this book is designed to be an effective critical
analysis framework for empowering teachers and schools to build and
share professional knowledge. This book is essential reading for educational
scholars, researchers, professionals, policymakers, and all those interested in
exploring the application of Popperian philosophy to the fi eld of education
and re-envisioning educational practice.
Stephanie Chitpin is Associate Professor of Leadership, Evaluation, Curriculum
and Policy Studies at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada.
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5 Virtue Ethics and Moral 13 Methods in the Philosophy
Education of Education
Edited by David Carr Frieda Heyting, Dieter Lenzen
and Jan Steutel and John White
6 Durkheim and Modern 14 Life, Work and Learning
Education Practice in Postmodernity
Edited by Geoffrey Walford and David Beckett and Paul Hager
W. S. F. Pickering
15 Education, Autonomy and
7 The Aims of Education Critical Thinking
Edited by Roger Marples Christopher Winch
8 Education in Morality
16 Anarchism and Education
J. Mark Halstead and Terence H.
A Philosophical Perspective
McLaughlin
Judith Suissa
9 Lyotard: Just Education
17 Cultural Diversity, Liberal
Edited by Pradeep A. Dhillon and
Pluralism and Schools
Paul Standish
Isaiah Berlin and Education
10 Derrida & Education Neil Burtonwood
Edited by Gert J. J. Biesta and
Denise Egéa-Kuehne 18 Levinas and Education
At the Intersection of Faith and
11 Education, Work and Social Reason
Capital Edited by Denise Egéa-Kuehne
Towards a New Conception
of Vocational Education 19 Moral Responsibility,
Christopher Winch Authenticity, and Education
Ishtiyaque Haji and Stefaan
12 Philosophical Discussion E. Cuypers
in Moral Education
The Community of Ethical Inquiry 20 Education, Science and Truth
Tim Sprod Rasoul Nejadmehr
21 Philosophy of Education in the 30 Higher Education in Liquid
Era of Globalization Modernity
Edited by Yvonne Raley and Marvin Oxenham
Gerhard Preyer
31 Education and the Common
22 Habermas, Critical Theory and Good
Education Essays in Honor of Robin Barrow
Edited by Mark Murphy and Edited by John Gingell
Ted Fleming
32 Systems of Reason and the
23 The New Signifi cance of Politics of Schooling
Learning School Reform and Sciences of
Imagination’s Heartwork Education in the Tradition of
Pádraig Hogan Thomas S. Popkewitz
Edited by Miguel A. Pereyra &
24 Beauty and Education Barry M. Franklin
Joe Winston
33 Education, Justice and the
25 Education, Professionalization Human Good
and Social Representations Fairness and equality in the
On the Transformation of Social education system
Knowledge Kirsten Meyer
Edited by Mohamed Chaib, Berth
Danermark and Staffan Selander 34 Education Reform and the
Concept of Good Teaching
26 Education, Professionalism and Derek Gottlieb
the Quest for Accountability
Hitting the Target but Missing 35 Posthumanism and Educational
the Point Research
Jane Green Edited by Nathan Snaza and
John A. Weaver
27 Geometry as Objective
Science in Elementary School 36 Parallels and Responses to
Classrooms Curricular Innovation
Mathematics in the Flesh The Possibilities of Posthumanistic
Wolff-Michael Roth Education
Brad Petitfi ls
28 The Global Reception of John
Dewey’s Thought 37 The Educational Prophecies of
Multiple Refractions Through Aldous Huxley
Time and Space The Visionary Legacy of Brave New
Edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré and World, Ape and Essence, and Island
Jürgen Schriewer Ronald Lee Zigler
29 Social Reconstruction Learning 38 Popper’s Approach to Education
Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy A Cornerstone of Teaching and
in Schools Learning
Jennifer Bleazby Stephanie Chitpin
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Popper’s Approach to
Education
A Cornerstone of Teaching
and Learning
Stephanie Chitpin
First published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Names: Chitpin, Stephanie, author.
Title: Popper’s approach to education : a cornerstone of teaching and
learning / by Stephanie Chitpin.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge
international studies in the philosophy of education ; 38
Identifiers: LCCN 2015036727 | ISBN 9781138940772 (hbk) |
ISBN 9781315674063 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Education—Philosophy. | Teachers—Training of—
Philosophy. | Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902–1994.
Classification: LCC LB14.7 .C475 2016 | DDC 370.1—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036727
ISBN: 978-1-138-94077-2 (hbk)
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To my two boys, Jeremy and Justin
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Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
1 Why a Popperian Approach to Teacher Education:
Critical Rationalism in Teaching and Learning 1
2 A Popperian Approach to Building Teachers’ Knowledge 16
3 Why Popper’s View of Rationality Should Be Considered
for Promoting Teacher Knowledge 33
4 Guiding Pre-Service Teachers’ Reflections: A Popperian
Analysis Using the Objective Knowledge Growth
Framework 46
5 Capturing Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge Growth:
Popper’s Philosophy of Science and the Objective
Knowledge Growth Framework 63
6 Advancing Pedagogy Through Counter-Inductivity 79
7 The Objective Knowledge Growth Framework: A Framework
for Principals’ Emotional Decision-Making 92
8 Principals and the Professional Learning Community:
Learning to Mobilize Knowledge 108
9 Making Just Tenure and Promotion Decisions Using
the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework 124
Index 141
