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Values education and technology : the ideology of dispossession / Peter C. Emberley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)1995.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 330 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442683013
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • LC268 .V358 1995
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
2. The World and Spirit as Possession -- 3. Values Education: Three Models -- 4. Values Development: The Hegelian Experiment -- 5. Values Clarification: The Nietzschean Experiment -- 6. The Technological Environment -- 7. From Dispossession to Possession.
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Subject: For decades, values education has been one of the most hotly contested areas of reappraisal in school curricula. This book contributes to the debate with the controversial proposition that the current modes of values education are not cultivating the qualities associated with moral judgment and character, that they are in fact producing a consciousness which merely reinforces some of the potentially destructive tendencies of modern technology.Summary: The consequence of this collusion between values education and technological consciousness is a person who cannot be critical of technology, one who cannot recognize any limits to our technological prowess. Whether this collusion is intentional or inadvertent is one of the many issues Emberley pursues. He proposes pedagogical options which revive the spirit (though not the letter) of the 'traditional curriculum.' He argues that the aim of education is to produce a character that does not allow reason to become merely a faculty of shrewd calculation and technical expertise.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Values and Values Education: Towards a New Regime -- 2. The World and Spirit as Possession -- 3. Values Education: Three Models -- 4. Values Development: The Hegelian Experiment -- 5. Values Clarification: The Nietzschean Experiment -- 6. The Technological Environment -- 7. From Dispossession to Possession.

For decades, values education has been one of the most hotly contested areas of reappraisal in school curricula. This book contributes to the debate with the controversial proposition that the current modes of values education are not cultivating the qualities associated with moral judgment and character, that they are in fact producing a consciousness which merely reinforces some of the potentially destructive tendencies of modern technology.

The consequence of this collusion between values education and technological consciousness is a person who cannot be critical of technology, one who cannot recognize any limits to our technological prowess. Whether this collusion is intentional or inadvertent is one of the many issues Emberley pursues. He proposes pedagogical options which revive the spirit (though not the letter) of the 'traditional curriculum.' He argues that the aim of education is to produce a character that does not allow reason to become merely a faculty of shrewd calculation and technical expertise.

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