This book provides an account of an original educational philosophy developed by one of the
most significant philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries Roy
Bhaskar. Though he directed his attention to wider matters than education his philosophy has
implications for the way we can understand how the world is structured and in turn how we can
transform it to accommodate a desire for a better arrangement of resources for human
well-being. It is thus both a theory of mind and world and in addition a theory of education.
Roy Bhaskar's philosophy has a view on the following important matters: intentionality
agential capacity materialism the possibility of describing and changing the world
progression education and the lifecourse essentialism and human nature pedagogy knowledge
and knowledge-development the formation of the self curricular aims and objectives being
with other people the self in the learning process the relationship between the self (or
agency) and the environment stratification emergence representation and its different modes
structures and mechanisms the dialectic and criticality.
