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This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an
international perspective on topical issues in philosophy of
education today. Focusing on the enduring trends in this field,
this lively and informative Reader provides broad coverage of the
field and includes crucial topics.
With an emphasis on contemporary pieces that deal with issues
relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the
research and views of some of the most respected authors in the
field today. Wilfred Carr also provides a specially written
introduction which provides a much-needed context to the role of
philosophy in the current educational climate.
Students of philosophy and philosophy of education will find this
Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding.
The question of how to improve the quality of teaching is quite
properly perceived to be at the heart of the contemporary
educational debate. By offering a critique of the current
educational rhetoric and by providing arguments for reviving the
moral and social dimensions of teaching, this book aims to offer
teachers and teacher educators the means to advance the notion of
"teaching quality".
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an
international perspective on topical issues in philosophy of
education today. Focusing on the enduring trends in this field,
this lively and informative Reader provides broad coverage of the
field and includes crucial topics.
With an emphasis on contemporary pieces that deal with issues
relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the
research and views of some of the most respected authors in the
field today. Wilfred Carr also provides a specially written
introduction which provides a much-needed context to the role of
philosophy in the current educational climate.
Students of philosophy and philosophy of education will find this
Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding.
During the past decade there has been a series of radical changes
to the educational system of England and Wales. This book argues
that any serious study of these changes has to engage with complex
questions about the role of education in a modem liberal democracy
Were these educational changes informed by the needs and
aspirations of a democratic society? To what extent will they
promote democratic values and ideals'? These questions can only be
adequately addressed by making explicit the political ideas and the
underlying philosophical principles that have together shaped the
English educational system.;To this end, the book provides a
selective history of English education which exposes the
connections between decisive periods of educational change and the
intellectual and political climate in which it occurred. It also
connects the educational policies of the 1980s and 90s to the
political ideas of the New Right in order to show how they are part
of a broader political strategy aimed at reversing the democratic
advances achieved through the intellectual and political struggles
of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.; The book proposes that
a democratic educational vision can
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