The Role of Peirce’s Pragmatism in Education

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  • Patricia Turrisi

Keywords:

Peirce, pragmaticism, scientific community, education, constructivism

Abstract

While Charles Sanders Peirce did not have what we might think of in the 21st century as an established academic teaching career, he spent much of his scholarly efforts on constructing articles, textbooks, lessons, lectures and schemes that would promote a fertile framework for genuine inquiry within a “scientific community of scholars.” What sort of a model for education does pragmatism, after the manner of Charles Peirce’s pragmaticism, offer? How would the infusion of a pragmatic mode of inquiry into education affect the way teaching and learning are understood and practiced? In this paper, I will conceptualize the educational system that is suggested by Charles Peirce’s pragmaticisim and evaluate the differences between a pragmaticist educational scheme and several major current nonpragmaticist models.

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Published

2013-01-09

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Turrisi, P. (2013). The Role of Peirce’s Pragmatism in Education. Cognitio: Revista De Filosofia, (3), 122–135. Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/13257

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Cognitio Papers