This special issue responds to the current discourse on cinema and education from a philosophical point of view. Considering fact that young people worldwide are watching films series via their smartphones or personal computers, we here explore educative aspects this popular activity. Does wide-ranging habit mis-educate next generation? Or does carry potential for ethical-political education, p...

In this article the answer for the question ‘is education a scientific discipline?’ will be analyzed. Regarding this question, those who oppose the arguments that education is a scientific discipline and others who claim that education is not a philosophic discipline are both right. The question will be reviewed within the framework of philosophy’s and sciences’ basic structures. Those who clai...

Sophisticated/Well-Educated Person from Avicenna’s Perspective*   A. Sohbatloo** M.R. Aahanchiyaan, Ph.D.*** B. Sha’bani Varaki, Ph.D.**** A.R. Saadeghzaadeh Ghamsari, Ph.D.*****   A basic question asked by many philosophers has been about the criteria by which a person’s sophistication is measured and the characteristics by which a sophisticated/well educated person is identified. Given...

The objective of this research is determining the effectiveness of philosophy education on metacognitive beliefs among high school students. The objective of the research is applied and the method of data gathering is semi-experimental, pre-test and post-test with control group. Statistical population includes high school students in district 3 of Tehran in the first mid-term of educational yea...

despite the passage of seven decades from the field of adult education activities, and establishment of several formal vs. informal organizations, not only a comprehensive philosophy for adult education has not been developed, but also a significant effort to introduce the philosophy of education as regards adult education is lacking. the aim followed in the present study was to seek the attitu...

The article deduces the concept of self-education that had been advocated by Laozi, founder Taoism, in his philosophy on aesthetic education. From perspective philosophical thoughts, this analyzes inspiration and inheritance “aesthetic” Chinese traditional culture based self-education, discusses similarities between beauty, as well explores internal relationship feeling so enlightenment value e...