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In this book, first published in 1978, Allen Brent sets out to
explore some of the questions raised by theorists and philosophers
regarding curriculum. He starts by investigating whether all
knowledge is the product of social conditions of particular times
or places, or whether there is some kind of universal framework
implicit in the claims to knowledge which men make. He looks at the
work of Plato, Newman, Freire and Hirt and how, each of them in a
strikingly different way, they have tried to give us an objective
basis for curriculum judgements and how the validity of that basis
is attacked by contemporary sociologists of knowledge. This book is
aimed primarily at students who are concentrating on the philosophy
of education or curriculum theory.
What models in the social sciences underlie existing or proposed
patterns of educational practice? What theories of knowledge inform
such models and thus arguably sanction such practice? In this book,
first published in 1983, the author seeks some tentative answers.
Wittgenstein's understanding of 'family resemblance' and Chomsky's
'linguistic universals' are interpreted, contrary to Hamlyn, as
reconcilable notions that can both illuminate and refine Hirst's
understanding of 'categorical concepts'. In the light of such a
reformulated theory, Brent suggest ways in which a unified model of
the social sciences could yield a unified curriculum theory. This
title will be of interest to students of the philosophy of
education and curriculum studies.
What models in the social sciences underlie existing or proposed
patterns of educational practice? What theories of knowledge inform
such models and thus arguably sanction such practice? In this book,
first published in 1983, the author seeks some tentative answers.
Wittgenstein's understanding of 'family resemblance' and Chomsky's
'linguistic universals' are interpreted, contrary to Hamlyn, as
reconcilable notions that can both illuminate and refine Hirst's
understanding of 'categorical concepts'. In the light of such a
reformulated theory, Brent suggest ways in which a unified model of
the social sciences could yield a unified curriculum theory. This
title will be of interest to students of the philosophy of
education and curriculum studies.
In this book, first published in 1978, Allen Brent sets out to
explore some of the questions raised by theorists and philosophers
regarding curriculum. He starts by investigating whether all
knowledge is the product of social conditions of particular times
or places, or whether there is some kind of universal framework
implicit in the claims to knowledge which men make. He looks at the
work of Plato, Newman, Freire and Hirt and how, each of them in a
strikingly different way, they have tried to give us an objective
basis for curriculum judgements and how the validity of that basis
is attacked by contemporary sociologists of knowledge. This book is
aimed primarily at students who are concentrating on the philosophy
of education or curriculum theory.
Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus believed fervently that his conversion
experience had been a passage from the darkness of the world of
Graeco Roman paganism to his new vision of Christianity. But
Cyprian's response as bishop to the Decian persecution was to be
informed by the pagan culture that he had rejected so completely.
His view of church order also owed much to Roman jurisprudential
principles of legitimate authority exercised within a sacred
boundary spatially and geographically defined. Given the highly
fragmented state of pagan sources for this period, Cyprian is often
the only really contemporary primary source for the events through
which he lived. In this book, Allen Brent seeks to contribute both
to our understanding of Roman history in the mid-third century as
well as the enduring model of church order that developed in that
period.
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that
integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data. Today
the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and
agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of
development. However, two centuries ago it contained hundreds of
thousands of acres of natural grasslands that stretched from
Florida to Texas. Now more than 99 percent of these prairies,
glades, and savannas have been plowed up or paved over, lost to
agriculture, urban growth, and cattle ranching. The few remaining
grassland sites are complex ecosystems, home to hundreds of
distinct plant and animal species, and worthy of study.
Southeastern Grasslands: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
brings together the latest research on southeastern prairie systems
and species, provides a complete picture of an increasingly rare
biome, and offers solutions to many conservation biology queries.
Editors JoVonn G. Hill and John A. Barone have gathered renowned
experts in their fields from across the region who address
questions related to the diversity, ecology, and management of
southeastern grasslands, along with discussions of how to restore
sites that have been damaged by human activity. Over the last
twenty years, both researchers and the public have become more
interested in the grasslands of the Southeast. This volume builds
on the growing knowledge base of these remarkable ecosystems with
the goal of increasing appreciation for them and stimulating
further study of their biota and ecology. Topics such as the
historical distribution of grasslands in the South, the plants and
animals that inhabit them, as well as assessments of several
techniques used in their conservation and management are covered
in-depth. Written with a broad audience in mind, this book will
serve as a valuable introduction and reference for nature
enthusiasts, scientists, and land managers.
Ignatius of Antioch (died c. 115) is one of the Apostolic Fathers
of the Christian Church. In his letters to other churches he
re-interpreted church order, the Eucharist and martyrdom against
the backcloth of the Second Sophistic in Asia minor by using the
cultural material of a pagan society. He so formed the idea and
theology of the office of a bishop in the Christian church. This
book is an account of the circumstances and the cultural context in
which Ignatius constructed what became the historic church order of
Christendom.
Allen Brent defends the authenticity of the Ignatian letters by
showing how the circumstances of Ignatius' condemnation at Antioch
and departure for Rome fits well with what we can reconstruct of
the internal situation in the Church of Antioch in Syria at the end
of the first century. Ignatius is presented as a controversial
figure arising in the context of a church at war with itself.
Ignatius constructs out of the conflicting models of church order
available to him one founded on a single bishop that he commends to
Christian communities through which he passes in chains as a
condemned martyr prisoner.
Brent focuses on the reformation of republican religion and the
exercise of political authority in Augustan society. Augustus'
revolution involved a reformation also of republican religion that
provided legitimation for the exercise of political authority. The
iconography of the Ara Pacis, for example, shows that Augustus as
augur was making a metaphysical claim, namely to have secured the
peace of the gods not simply throughout the civil organization of
the empire but also in nature itself. What republican religion had
failed to do, his reformed religion had succeeded in doing. Thus
Augustan society had reached a formally similar position to the
world of the late twentieth century with its own version of the
'end of history' (Fukuama) in which not simply all other practical
political alternatives seem to have been excluded but ideological
(or metaphysical) ones as well. How was Christianity, if it were to
achieve transformation of contemporary society, to respond to such
an apparently unassailable position? How indeed was it to develop
both the aim and the strategy for so doing? It needed to shed its
original apocalyptic solution in which the certainty of the
imminence of the second advent meant that there was no need for
actions with political implications in this world. Such a process
bears comparison with the way in which Marxists active in Western
democracies refused involvement in normal political processes
whilst they awaited the 'inevitable' collapse of 'capitalism.' It
needed to turn from a perspective of inner soul-culture that had no
interest in the transformation of wider society (Gnosticism). Such
is paralleled by a kind of charismatic fundamentalism in the
present. It needed to produce a 'project' that would be effective
in transforming its values into a form that bore convincing
parallels to the values of the dominant culture that its was
endeavoring to influence in order to secure wide support for its
access to power.
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