This book increases the accessibility of philosophical concepts to a wider audience within medical education, translating knowing to doing. It prompts health professions educators and researchers to consider the dynamics and structure of contemporary issues within health professions education in new, philosophical ways. Through considering the practical implications of applying philosophical concepts to contemporary issues, the book recommends avenues for further research and pedagogical change. Individual educators are considered, with practice points for teaching generated within each chapter.
Readers will acquire practical ways in which they can change their own practice or pedagogy that align with the new insight offered through our philosophical analysis. These practical recommendations may be systemic in nature, but the authors of this book also offer micro-level recommendations for practitioners that can be considered as ways to improveindividual approaches to education and research.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Philosophy as Praxis.- Chapter 2. The philosophy of science: an overview.- Chapter 3. The philosophy of social science: tensions between individualism and holism.- Chapter 4. Ontology: What is it to be human?.- Chapter 5. The philosophy of education: an overview.- Chapter 6. The philosophy of education: Biesta, the non-medical model, and person-making.- Chapter 7. The philosophy of education: Freires critical pedagogy.- Chapter 8. Philosophical feminism.- Chapter 9. Philosophical pedagogy: how philosophy can help us understand innovations.- Chapter 10. The Serious Healer: Developing an ethic of ambiguity within health professions education.- Chapter 11. The demise of practical wisdom within health professions education: is the hidden curriculum to l‘
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