The Logic of Education (RLE Edu K)

The Logic of Education (RLE Edu K)
Author: Paul H Hirst
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136492291

This book explores the implications for the curriculum, for teaching and for the authority structure of schools and colleges of an analysis of ‘education’ in which the development of knowledge and understanding is accorded a central position. The book explains what philosophy of education is, and by concentrating on its central concepts, initiates readers into exploring it for themselves. It also serves as a succinct introduction to the growing literature on philosophy of education in the UK.

The Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)

The Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)
Author: Harry Schofield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136491813

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.

Education (RLE Edu K)

Education (RLE Edu K)
Author: M VC Jeffreys
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136492224

This book discusses the very nature and purpose of education and provides a foundation upon which more specialized studies in the psychology, history and sociology of education can be based. The book therefore surveys the main problems of human life – the relation of the individual and society, freedom and authority, continuity and change (i.e.growth), and underlying them all, the paradox that aspiration and frustration are continually linked in human experience. The educational implications of these various problems are considered in such a way that the methods as well as the aims of education are discussed.

Theory & Practice in Education (RLE Edu K)

Theory & Practice in Education (RLE Edu K)
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.

Educational Theory (RLE Edu K)

Educational Theory (RLE Edu K)
Author: Terence W Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113649054X

This book comes strongly to the defence of educational theory and shows that it has a structure and integrity of its own. The author argues that the validity of educational theory may best be judged in terms of the various assumptions made in it. His argument is illustrated by a review and critique of some particularly influential theories of education: those of Plato, Rousseau, James Mill and John Dewey. He stresses the need for an on-going, contemporary, general theory of education and examines the ways in which the disciplines of psychology, sociology and philosophy can contribute to a general theory of this kind.

The Philosophy of Primary Education (RLE Edu K)

The Philosophy of Primary Education (RLE Edu K)
Author: R F Dearden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113649264X

This volume provides a rigorous examination of theoretical concepts such as need, interest, growth, play, experience, activity and self-expression. It also makes an important contribution towards getting a closely argued educational theory. In the first part of the book the author establishes general aims and ends with suggestions as to what the curriculum ought to be. The second part is concerned with the procedures of learning and teaching appropriate to such a curriculum.

A Modern Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)

A Modern Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)
Author: Godfrey Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136491597

‘Philosophy’ in the context of this book means that the author is looking at education as a whole, without restrictions or simplifications; looking at ends and purposes, not merely at methods and means. He discusses early years education, the sociology and psychology of education as well as education in adolescence and adult education. Well-known as a critical pioneer of intelligence research the author discusses educational psychology as much as philosophy in this book.

The Rationality of Feeling (RLE Edu K)

The Rationality of Feeling (RLE Edu K)
Author: David Best
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136491457

This volume emphasizes the necessity for arts teachers to nurture the personal development of their students by expanding their artistic understanding and creativity. In aiming to provide a broader understanding for the effective teaching of the arts, the author provides powerful reasons for seeing the arts as agents of learning, understanding and development. The volume also demonstrates that whilst the arts are centrally concerned with feeling, they are as fully open to objective reasoning as any other subject discipline such as science, but the dichotomy between ‘scientism’ and ‘subjectivism’ is all-pervading in a curriculum which marginalises the teaching of the arts.

Plato and Education (RLE Edu K)

Plato and Education (RLE Edu K)
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