The proper scope of education for flourishing

Author:

Kristjánsson Kristján1,VanderWeele Tyler J2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, School of Education, University of Birmingham , Birmingham B15 2TT , United Kingdom

2. Harvard University , Department of Epidemiology, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 , United States

Abstract

Abstract The concept of flourishing has recently come into vogue within various areas of the humanities and social sciences (e.g. philosophy, psychology, economics, health, education). This article focuses on its potential role within education, where the retrieval of flourishing has perhaps been most visible of all the recent areas of interest, setting in motion what some have called a ‘flourishing bandwagon’. This bandwagon has blazed a trail for the somewhat radical view that flourishing can be seen not only as a significant aim, but even the central aim, of all educational endeavours. Recent criticisms of the flourishing view focus on its potential vacuity and its unhelpful conflation of general and laudable, but uneducable, socio-political and psycho-moral aims with educable ones, hence placing unreasonable burdens on practitioners. After providing a brief historical and conceptual backdrop, this article aims at fleshing out and finessing the scope of education for flourishing and, hence at responding to the recent critics. This is done inter alia through an analogy with health where a similar theoretical problem beckons about possible conceptual underpopulations and overpopulations of the content of the aim of health itself.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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