Supporting Material
Committed Knowledge: The Modern Past
Al-Ghazzali on the Sources of Knowledge
John Locke on Human Understanding
Ibn Tufayl on Knowledge from Experience and the Discovery of the Creator
Descartes: ‘I Think Therefore I Am’
Immanuel Kant on Reason’s Role in Understanding
Aristotle on Higher Forms of Knowledge
Matthew Arnold on Learning ‘The Best Which Has Been Thought and Said’
E.D. Hirsch on ‘Cultural Literacy’
Knowledge Relativism: More Recent Times
Sextus Empiricus, The Sceptic, On Not Being Dogmatic
Nietzsche on the Impossibility of Truth
Wittgenstein on the Way We Make Meanings with Language
Richard Rorty on Truth and Language
Aronowitz and Giroux on Postmodern Education
George Pell on the Dictatorship of Relativism
Knowledge Repertoires: New learning
Husserl on the Task of Science, in and of the Lifeworld
Knowledge Repertoires, Case Studies
Kalantzis and Cope, A Palette of Pedagogical Choices
They Knew Much More Than We Realised