Philosophy of Education

The Philosophy of Education investigates the epistemological, anthropological, and ethical–normative foundations of education. It examines the meaning, purposes, and conditions of possibility of educational processes, bringing to light the implicit assumptions that underlie pedagogical theories and practices. Historically developed in close dialogue with both philosophy and pedagogy, the Philosophy of Education performs a critical–metatheoretical function and, more fundamentally, a constitutive one: it seeks to clarify the formal object of education and to restore its unity and intelligibility. From this perspective, it helps to establish Pedagogy as an autonomous field of knowledge—primarily descriptive–interpretative and only thereafter practical–normative—capable of understanding education as a human phenomenon that is historically and culturally situated.