| Author | : David Carr |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2012-05-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1136492712 |
Tracing the views on moral life of such past philosophers as Plato, Aristotle and Kant, as well as of such theorists as Durkheim, Freud, Piaget and Kohlberg, the author sets forth a full discussion of the nature and educational implications of the idea of moral virtue.
| Author | : Herbert Read |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2012-05-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113649040X |
This book deals with the everlasting problem of war and peace. In it, the author argues that mankind must be predisposed for peace by the right kind of education and he discusses how to devise methods of education which will prevent war.
| Author | : Robin Barrow |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 2012-05-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113649474X |
This introduction to Plato’s philosophical and educational thought examines Plato’s views and relates them to issues and questions that occupy philosophers of education. Robin Barrow stresses the relevance of Plato today, while introducing the student both to Plato’s philosophy and to contemporary educational debate. In the first part of the book the author examines Plato’s historical background and summarizes the Republic. Successive chapters are concerned with the critical discussion of specific educational issues. He deals with questions relating to the impartial distribution of education, taking as a starting point Plato’s celebrated dictum that unequals should be treated unequally. He examines certain methodological concepts such as ‘discovery-learning’ and ‘play’ and also raises the wider question of children’s freedom. He looks critically at the content of the curriculum and discusses Plato’s theory of knowledge and attitude to art. Finally Robin Barrow discusses Plato’s view of moral education and the related problem of what constitutes moral indoctrination
| Author | : Harry Schofield |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2013-05-13 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1136491805 |
There are many students who find philosophy of education difficult, because they have never received teaching in the basic essentials of general philosophy. This book begins by asking the basic question ‘what is philosophy?’ and examines a number of possible answers. Step by step the reader is introduced to the modern techniques of linguistic and concept analysis. Whenever a technical term is used it is explained and illustrated by reference to familiar situations in everyday life.
| Author | : Charlotte M Mason |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2012-05-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1136492089 |
This was the last and most important and comprehensive work of Charlotte Mason, (founder of the Parents’ National Educational Union). For more than half a century the practical results of her original thought on education could be seen in all parts of the world in the Charlotte Mason Method and the Parents’ Union Schools.
| Author | : R F Dearden |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2012-05-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113649250X |
The main concern of the volume is the relation of theory to practice in education but the book also reviews the state of educational theory, and its relation to politics. Beginning with a group of papers on specific areas of the relation between theory and practice, the book goes on to discuss aspects of the curriculum, such as curricular principles in recent official reports, the newly emerging theme of general abilities, and controversial material in the curriculum. The theme of the third group of articles is personal autonomy, one of the very few generally supported educational aims of recent years, and a final group presents a retrospective view of the Plowden Report.
| Author | : R F Dearden |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2012-05-23 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1136492577 |
The first part of the book discusses aims, who should determine them and how they might be determined. The second part discusses some more specific topics of learning and teaching, such as learning how to learn, the integrated day and the use of competition. The author distinguishes three broad levels of thought in looking at schools: the details of choice and decision; the general principles which are, or ought to be, guiding that detailed practice; and the theoretical commentaries on the guiding principles available from the various disciplines which constitute the study of education.
| Author | : Anthony O'Hear |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2012-05-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1136490477 |
Intended primarily for education students this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of education that tackles educational problems and at the same time relates them to the mainstream of philosophical analysis. Among the educational topics the book discusses are the aims of education, the two cultures debate, moral education, equality as an ideal and academic elitism. It examines the limitations of a purely technological education, and suggests the shape of a balanced curriculum. It critically analyses important educational theses in the work of Rousseau, Dewey, R S Peters, P H Hirst, F R Leavis, Ronald Dworkin and G H Bantock, among many others, and considers the philosophical copics of relativism, the nature of knowledge, the basis of moral choice, the value of democracy and the status of religious claims.
| Author | : John N Wales |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2012-05-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113649152X |
Many people have come to feel that the controversy on education in Britain has got bogged down in political polemics, and that common polarisations between ‘conventional’ and ‘progressive’, ‘selective’ and ‘comprehensive’, ‘elite’ and ‘democratic’ are both unrealistic and damaging. The author believes that a new educational ethic is needed now that former religious sanctions are no longer generally operative. He believes that it is possible to regard the concept of a Rational Good as a basis for educational theory and practice. The book discusses important practical issues in education: liberty and equality, use and abuse of convention, the ethical basis and occasion for coercion, the validity of co-education as an educational principle and the John Wales concludes that the correspondence between the popular extremes of educational views is much more significant than their differences.
