GMoLS6E36 Continental Theorists with Donald Clark

Great Minds on Learning

Deconstructing Continental Philosophy's Impact on Modern Education.

At the end of the 19th Century, a split in Philosophy emerged that persists today. The Analytic tradition, led by Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, emphasized clarity, logical rigour, and formal methods in language analysis. By contrast, Continental theorists such as Husserl and Heidegger went to a very different place. They focused on human experience and took on broader cultural and political themes, giving us terms like existentialism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. In this final episode of the season, we explore the impact of Continental Theorists. What influence have these radical thinkers, whose writings often seem almost wilfully obscure, had on education and learning?

• 00:00:00 - Start
• 00:00:46 - Intro
• 00:01:59 - Introducing the Continental Theorists
• 00:09:01 - Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
• 00:24:28 - Paul-Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
• 00:41:11 - Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998)
• 00:52:42 - Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
• 01:09:54 - Summing up

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