To be more explicit about this, as educators, we are concerned
with philosophical issues and perspectives in our daily work
within classrooms. As we debate curricular issues, as we decide
educational policy, as we work with students and their “behavior,”
as we “test” students’ “knowledge,” etc., we are concerned
with philosophy. However, asWingo stated, the underlying ideas
behind our practice may go unnoticed, may be unconscious,
may be unquestioned. The importance of philosophical inquiry
in education is exactly at this point: It can illuminate, inform,
call into question, etc., the taken-for-granted notions that we
have. Philosophical inquiry and analysis can help conceptual
clarification, as well as inform our praxis, and vice versa.