The Therapy of Education - Philosophy, Happiness and Personal Growth (Paperback)

In recent years ideas about therapy have found their way increasingly into educational practice: there is Circle Time in the elementary school and a new emphasis on self-esteem, there is assertiveness training and stress management for adults, and the bookshop shelves are heavy with volumes on self-help. In a different vein, and since ancient times, education has itself often been thought of as a kind of therapy, at minimum a cure for bad intellectual and moral habits, and sometimes a progressive working on the self with philosophy its essential ally. Yet formal education today, with its compulsive fixation on assessment and league-tables, seems, ironically enough, to need therapy of its own.
This book examines the many connections between education and therapy, critically but sympathetically. It brings to bear on areas of confusion and mystification the philosophical attention that has sometimes been thought of as potentially therapeutic and conducive to personal growth and flourishing.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2010
First published:	2007
Editors:	P. Standish • P. Smeyers • R. Smith
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-24709-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-230-24709-1
Barcode:	9780230247093

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