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(2017) A companion to Wittgenstein on education, Dordrecht, Springer.
According to what has been called a "Transformational" account of education , a child comes to possess rational and conceptual capacities as a result of initiation into culture or a "form of life." I consider how we must understand the engagement with other minds involved in education if we are to make sense of the Transformational view. I argue that Wittgenstein's discussions of perceiving and mimicking other minds provide the resources to respond to worries one might have with the idea that a genuine meeting of minds can occur in education prior to the acquisition of sophisticated capacities for reasoning.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6_31
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Doyle, C. (2017)., Engagement, expression, and initiation, in M. A. Peters & J. Stickney (eds.), A companion to Wittgenstein on education, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 467-479.
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