The article is a brief review of presentations at the international symposium of the Central European Philosophy of Education Society in Slovakia in 2016: “Continental Pedagogy: Its Problems and Challenges Through the Lens of History and Philosophy”. The work of two sections is analyzed. One of them is devoted to continental pedagogy in its regional and historical aspects; the participants of the second sections analyzed the philosophical problems of continental pedagogy. Understanding contemporary educational processes through interaction of the pedagogical and (...) philosophical research traditions is not only powerful impetus for the deployment of innovative trends in education, but it also creates a conceptual framework for interdisciplinary dialogue between pedagogy and philosophy, as it is in the case, for example, with philosophy of education. (shrink)

This paper deals with the problem of the methodological foundations of social philosophy. The notion of "multidimensionality" as one of the key concepts in the new social philosophy paradigm is analyzed. This notion reflects some expanded pictures of the social and cultural world. The paper makes reference to H. Marcuse's, A. Toynbee's, R. Dahrendorfs, and P. Bourdieu's interpretations of multidimensionality. Their different approaches are considered. The author underlines the common positions of scholars' interpretations and shows the differences in terminology. Primary (...) attention is paid to the analysis of how researchers develop and use this new notion. The significance of this notion for the analysis of social phenomenon is underlined. This explication demonstrates the heuristic possibilities of the concept "multi-dimensionality" for the exploration of society. (shrink)

This paper deals with the problem of the methodological foundations of social philosophy. The notion of "multidimensionality" as one of the key concepts in the new social philosophy paradigm is analyzed. This notion reflects some expanded pictures of the social and cultural world. The paper makes reference to H. Marcuse's, A. Toynbee's, R. Dahrendorfs, and P. Bourdieu's interpretations of multidimensionality. Their different approaches are considered. The author underlines the common positions of scholars' interpretations and shows the differences in terminology. Primary (...) attention is paid to the analysis of how researchers develop and use this new notion. The significance of this notion for the analysis of social phenomenon is underlined. This explication demonstrates the heuristic possibilities of the concept "multi-dimensionality" for the exploration of society. (shrink)