Educational issues in Bertrand Russell
Enrico Bocciolesi
This paper aims to reconstruct and analyse some of the proposals made by Bertrand Russell regarding the challenges of education. Without pretending to reduce the concepts, this essay offers a reflexive rereading of some of the steps which made it possible to define a pedagogical thought within the vastness of the scientific contributions promoted by the English philosopher. Linguistic issues and pedagogical relations are explored from different perspectives, with a focus on play and the dimension of creativity and imagination. Its propensity to act for the development of the critical dimension of the individual emerges as fundamental. The aim is the recognition of the value of the proposal for the education of children and adolescents, within the vastness of the scientific products which, through numerous passages with a focus on social dynamics, have been characteristic of the educational interest of the analytic philosopher.
Keywords
Educational issues, Russell, Philosophy of education, Social reconstruction, Beacon Hill.
