(Ap)pointing the canon Rousseau's Émile, visions of the state, and education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Émile, ou de I’Education (Émile, or on Education) has been described by Rousseau scholars in latter twentieth century English-language philosophy as an educational classic. In 1995 Robert Wokler argued that together with Montesquieu, Hume, Smith, and Kant among his contemporaries, Rousseau had exerted the most profound influence on modern European intellectual history, “perhaps even surpassing anyone else of his day." For Wokler Émile is “the most significant work on education after Plato’s Republic.” Earlier in 1977, Allan Bloom questioned why Émile had not been the subject of analysis in philosophy relative to the rest of Rousseau‘s work, for “Émile is truly a great book, one that lays out for the first time and with the greatest clarity and vitality the modern way of posing the problems of psychology.” Bloom also saw Émile as “one of those rare total or synoptic books... a book comparable to Plato’s Republic, which it is meant to rival or supersede” and argued that Rousseau himself was at the source of a new tradition: “Whatever else Rousseau may have accomplished, he presented alternatives available to man more comprehensively and profoundly and articulated them in the form which has dominated discussion since his time." Even Peter Gay’s earlier commentary on John Locke and education in 1964 could not escape this central positioning of the text. The significance of Locke’s Some Thoughts on Education is weighed in relation to its impact on Rousseau‘s Émile. For Gay, the latter is “probably the most influential revolutionary tract on education that we have.”

Education in J.J. Rousseau: a methodological antecedent of competence based teaching

Taking into account the huge repercussion and influence that J.J. Rousseau has had on modern pedagogy, the recent tercentenary of his birth is a good opportunity to think about his outstanding relevance nowadays. This paper is a theoretical and educative research developed with an analytic and comparative hermeneutical method. The main objective is to show how some concepts of his philosophy of education have a great similarity with certain changes that the present competency based teaching is demanding, so it could be considered its methodological background. In order to achieve this objective this exposure has been divided in three parts. The first part is an analysis of Rousseau's educational theory as developed in the first three books of the Emilio, in which one of the main themes is self experience-based learning, fostering self-sufficiency, curiosity and the motivation for learning. Rousseau proposed as a method the negative education, which requires, among other conditions, a constant monitoring of the learner by the tutor. In the second part, a brief summary of the most relevant changes and characteristics of competency-based teaching is developed, as well as its purpose. The student’s participation and activity are highlighted within their own learning process through the carrying out of tasks. The new educational model involves a radical change in the curriculum, in which it is highlighted the transformation of the methodology used in the classroom as well as the role of the teacher. Finally, the aim of the third part is to offer a comparative synthesis of both proposals grouping the parallelisms found in 4 topics: origin of the two models, its aims, methodology, and change in the teaching roles.

Influ??ncia i pres??ncia de l???Institut Rousseau de Ginebra en la pedagogia catalana del primer ter?? del segle XX

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A influência de Rousseau no sistema educativo

Material desenvolvido para a disciplina do curso de graduação em Pedagogia da UFSCar, oferecido na modalidade EaD. Duração: .

A filosofia de Rousseau

Rousseau era um grande crítico da sociedade, em alguns dos seus estudos, ele buscou responder à questão sobre o que origina a desigualdade entre os homens. Assim, para ele as desigualdades emergem das relações sociais e não possui uma causa natural. É nesse sentido que um dos temas abordados por Rousseau é que o homem nasce bom, no entanto, a sociedade o corrompe. Para ele a educação é a principal estratégia para garantir uma sociedade mais democrática. A principal contribuição de Rousseau para o pensamento educacional foi à obra Emílio ou da Educação. Nesse livro, o filósofo afirma que a educação deve ter início no nascimento e perdurar a vida inteira. Os fundamentos da pedagogia de Rousseau têm como base a epistemologia empírica, ou seja, o homem não nasce com o conhecimento, a mente é uma tabula rasa que é marcada através das experiências sensitivas de cada indivíduo. Outro termo utilizado na filosofia educacional de Rousseau é a educação naturalista que tem como propósito afastar o sujeito daquilo que causa as corrupções.

Rousseau e Molière: uma análise sobre a crítica do riso e da ridicularização

Pós-graduação em Filosofia - FFC

Um caso de espionagem na obra de Rousseau: o conde d'Antraigues

The count d’Antraigues, rousseauist and monarchist, became an anti-revolutionary secret agent during the French Revolution. This paper aims to prove that a girondin lecture of Rousseau approachs recent efforts to remove the hobbesianism from his thought. In other words, an anti-revolutionary conservative critic is the opposite of a present conservative critic.

Direito natural e política em Rousseau

We intend to present how the principles of political right that are at the convention that founds the political and moral body are resultant of Rousseau's natural right critiques. From restrictions to the established by philosophical tradition, Rousseau proposes his own thinking system and his own method, where the notions of nature, morality and legitimacy become a fecund field to his readers.

Das virtualidades do cuidado da infância em Rousseau ao seu pleno governo na arte pedagógica

This article discusses the genesis and development of the relationship between art education and childhood. To address this issue, we highlight the virtualities of the care with childhood postulated by Rousseau and Kant, also in its genesis, as opposed to an extreme government or to the domain that has on it or from it, in its subsequent development in contemporary times. Discussed, in this way, how these virtues have been abandoned by the practices included by art pedagogical, in order to find a place for thought of Rousseau and think it in its actuality.

Rousseau et le théâtre : le pour et le contre

Mme Michèle Crogiez traite dans sa communication de la querelle du théâtre à Genève entre Jean-Jacques Rousseau et D’Alembert à l’occasion de la publication de l’article "Genève" de l’ "Encyclopédie". La "Lettre à D’Alembert sur les spectacles" (1758) rédigée à Montmorency par Rousseau n’a rien d’une relation de voyage. Rousseau a quitté adolescent sa ville natale, et D’Alembert ne l’a connaît que très imparfaitement par de courts séjours … et par Voltaire. C’est donc d’un lieu largement imaginaire que parlent les deux écrivains. Paradoxalement, Rousseau qui est connu alors par des "discours" scandaleux l’est aussi par sa participation à la querelle des musiques italienne et française et par son activité d’auteur dramatique ("Le Devin de village"). Le contempteur du théâtre à Genève est lui-même homme de théâtre. Si le but de l’article "Genève" est aussi de faire connaître la République helvétique aux Français, le théâtre fait partie de la dimension politique d’une cité et justifie le développement de l’article sur ce qui n’existe pas à Genève, une vie théâtrale officielle. Dans sa "Lettre" (forme habituelle du débat ouvert au XVIIIe siècle), Rousseau emploie de façon récurrente la notion de "patrie" et de "patriotique" pour désigner la spécificité genevoise. Pour Rousseau, les hommes modernes sont corrompus, mais de manière diversifiée. Si les spectacles peuvent être autorisés à Paris (corruption forte et sans espoir de retour), ils doivent être bannis dans les pays où la corruption n’a pas atteint ce degré et où subsiste quelque chose de la primitive honnêteté. Derrière cette querelle, il y a évidemment Voltaire qui tente, des Délices à Carouge, d’introduire à Genève des spectacles théâtraux privés, complices de l’esprit corrupteur (voir ci-dessous sa lettre au marquis Capacelli). Et D’Alembert est son truchement. Chez Rousseau, Genève est une ville d’utopie pour un voyage dans sa mémoire affective, un lieu intime et menacé.

Oeuvres de Jean-Baptiste Rousseau : tome premier.

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Oeuvres de Jean-Baptiste Rousseau : tome quatrieme.

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Oeuvres completes de Voltaire. Tome soixante-huitieme [Recueil des lettres de M. de Voltaire. 1775-1778. Tome XIII]

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