Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid teach philosophy of education to
students, who are completing a post-graduate certificate in education
(PGCE) in order to qualify as teachers. They make the argument that
philosophy and education are intertwined as action concepts with the
potential to affect teacher education practices. Philosophy and
Education as Action: Implications for Teacher Education endeavors to
clarify pertinent philosophical concepts in education and look at how
these concepts impact teaching, learning, and management as classroom
practices. Through the philosophical concepts of epistêmê (knowledge),
phronesis (practical reasoning), praxis (productive action), paideia
(education), parhessia (free speech), technê (craft or art), dialogos
(deliberative engagement), philia (love and friendship), kosmopolitis
(cosmopolitanism), and dinamis (potentiality), students can come to
speech through a philosophical discourse situated in educational
studies.