{"id":1966,"date":"2021-03-27T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T13:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalrenaissance.com\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:16:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:16:32","slug":"what-blooms-left-out-a-comparison-with-aristotles-intellectual-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalrenaissance.com\/2021\/03\/27\/what-blooms-left-out-a-comparison-with-aristotles-intellectual-virtues\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bloom’s Left Out: A Comparison with Aristotle’s Intellectual Virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the last three articles in this series, I laid out the good<\/a>, the bad<\/a> and the ugly<\/a> of Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy<\/a>. After the last two posts it is perhaps worth reaffirming the value of Bloom\u2019s project. While I ultimately believe that Bloom and his colleagues may have done more harm than good, I do affirm the importance of clear objectives in education. The clarity and focus of their project, which raised the issue of teaching objectives in a unique way in the history of education, leaves a real and positive inheritance to the discipline. Moreover, I am convinced that where Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy failed, it did so because of a lack of far-seeing philosophical vision, and not because of any ill intentions. Like all of us do in various ways, they participated in the blind-spots of their era, and should not be taken to task too harshly for that fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of this series aims at a constructive development of Aristotle\u2019s Five Intellectual Virtues into a taxonomy of educational objectives of its own. The goal is to incorporate the value of Bloom\u2019s project with the broader and more holistic philosophy implied in Aristotle\u2019s Nicomachean Ethics<\/em>, book VI. As mentioned in the introduction, this will involve extending Aristotle\u2019s intellectual virtues into the later development of the liberal arts tradition of education. So this is not an Aristotle-only sort of proposal. Instead, I am proposing a taxonomy of sub-categories under the five intellectual virtues that is analogous to Bloom\u2019s six orders of objectives in the cognitive domain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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