This seminal volume provides an accessible overview of key ethical and philosophical debates surrounding contemporary education policy, advocating for a future in education that is primarily driven by prioritizing social values.
This seminal volume provides an accessible overview of key ethical and philosophical debates surrounding contemporary education policy, advocating for a future in education that is primarily driven by prioritizing social values.
Martin Cohen is Editor of long-standing UK journal The Philosopher and is best known as the author of a number of popular introductions to thinking skills (including 101 Philosophy Problems, Routledge, 2013, now in its fourth edition).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction PART I Philosophy's Fall from Grace Chapter 1. From Plato to Rousseau to Piaget and Dewey. Do teachers today still need to be philosophers? PART II Means and Ends in Education Chapter 2. Freedom versus Authority and Knowledge versus Experience. Should schools be putting ideas in - or drawing them out? Chapter 3. Means and ends in education: Do calls for more maths really add up? Chapter 4. From Froebel to Google: Integrated Education and the importance of creative play. PART III Liberalism and Human Values Chapter 5. The limits of individualism and the struggle to reconcile the aims of social equality with free development Chapter 6. Education in Europe: still divided between Church and State Chapter 7. Schools and Sex: children on the frontline of gender wars Chapter 8. Education as the Foundation of a Democratic Society Afterword: Education matters
Introduction PART I Philosophy's Fall from Grace Chapter 1. From Plato to Rousseau to Piaget and Dewey. Do teachers today still need to be philosophers? PART II Means and Ends in Education Chapter 2. Freedom versus Authority and Knowledge versus Experience. Should schools be putting ideas in - or drawing them out? Chapter 3. Means and ends in education: Do calls for more maths really add up? Chapter 4. From Froebel to Google: Integrated Education and the importance of creative play. PART III Liberalism and Human Values Chapter 5. The limits of individualism and the struggle to reconcile the aims of social equality with free development Chapter 6. Education in Europe: still divided between Church and State Chapter 7. Schools and Sex: children on the frontline of gender wars Chapter 8. Education as the Foundation of a Democratic Society Afterword: Education matters
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