Phenomenology and Education: Self-consciousness and its Development

This volume of essays brings a phenomenological focus to bear on the subject of education in order to provide a fruitful stimulus for educational philosophy. Originally published in 1978, the essays explore some of the main phenomenological and existentialist themes in relation to the development of consciousness. It is for philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and those interested in the nature of self-consciousness and how our view of it might affect our thinking about education.