THE MEANING, POSSIBILITY, AND LIMITS OF THE COMPARISON IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

mohammad hassan mirzamohammadi | Mohammad Hasan Tajdary | Amir Hossien soltanifallah | Peyman FALLAHNEZHAD | Ebrahim NAJMI

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=137175
Date :  2019/12/18
Publish in :    Journal of Organizational Behavior Research


Keywords :Comparative philosophy, Education, Philosophy of comparative education, Wests educational philosophy, Easts educational philosophy

Abstract :

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The purpose of the present study is to examine the meaning, possibility and limits of comparison in the philosophy of education. In order to achieve this purpose, the concept analysis method has been used. Accordingly, first comparativephilosophy, then education, and, finally, philosophy of comparative education have become conceptualized. The study results show that comparative philosophy in terms of nature can be viewed as a method, view or both. Education naturally is also a double valuedaction. The philosophy of comparative education, as a combination of the two former terms, is a new field that recognizes each of the two fields of comparative philosophy and education with their own particular features and is based on the basic assumption that if two educational systems are compared (from a philosophical point of view), these features should be fully and precisely addressed in the comparison. In the comparison of Wests educational philosophy with that of East, there are three options: in the first and second options, one of the two West or East education philosophies is negative and bad, and the other is seen as positive and good. In none of these two systems, comparison is possible. Therefore, there is a third option in which the West or East education philosophies both have positive and negative aspects, and none of them are absolutely good or bad. The claim of the present study is that the option is acceptable, and comparison in educational philosophies is meaningful and possible only within this limits.