Martin Cohen

Liberalism, Human Values and Schools as Microcosms of Society (eBook, PDF)

Rediscovering Education for a Moral Future

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040335628
• Artikelnr.: 73346966

Autorenporträt

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