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Classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of education / compiled by] Steven M. Cahn. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, New York : McGraw-Hill, 1997.Description: viii, 551 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780070096196
Uniform titles:
  • Philosophical foundations of education.
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB41.C614.C537 1997
Contents:
Meno -- Protagoras (selection) -- The republic (selection) / Plato -- Nicomachean ethics (selection) -- Politics (selection) / Aristotle -- Some thoughts concerning education (selection) / John Locke -- Emile (selection) / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Thoughts on education (selection) / Immanuel Kant -- Inaugural address at St. Andrews / John Stuart Mill -- The aims of education and other essays (selection) / Alfred North Whitehead -- The child and the curriculum -- Democracy and education (selection) -- Experience and education / John Dewey -- Summerhill (selection) / A.S. Neill -- Open education: open to what? / Kieran Egan -- Spheres of justice (selection) / Michael Walzer -- Democratic education (selection) / Amy Gutmann -- Moral education and the democratic idea / Israel Scheffler -- What is teaching? / Paul H. Hirst -- Education at the crossroads (selection) / Jacques Maritain -- Pedagogy of the oppressed (selection) / Paulo Freire -- Caring (selection) / Nel Noddings -- The philosophy of childhood (selection) / Gareth B. Matthews -- Education for modern man (selection) / Sidney Hook -- Two dogmas of curriculum / Jane Roland Martin -- The passion of pluralism: multiculturalism and the expanding community / Maxine Greene -- Hermeneutics, general studies, and teaching / Richard Rorty -- Traditionalists and their challengers / John R. Searle -- Asia in the core curriculum / W. Theodore de Bary.
Subject: Intended for philosophy of education courses, this anthology brings together classic writings on education by leading figures in the history of philosophy and contributions to the field by a variety of contemporary thinkers. The first section provides material from a sizeable collection of classic writers, enabling students to read the original sources themselves. The second section includes recent materials that reflect diverse approaches such as feminism, critical theory and multiculturalism.
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Meno -- Protagoras (selection) -- The republic (selection) / Plato -- Nicomachean ethics (selection) -- Politics (selection) / Aristotle -- Some thoughts concerning education (selection) / John Locke -- Emile (selection) / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Thoughts on education (selection) / Immanuel Kant -- Inaugural address at St. Andrews / John Stuart Mill -- The aims of education and other essays (selection) / Alfred North Whitehead -- The child and the curriculum -- Democracy and education (selection) -- Experience and education / John Dewey -- Summerhill (selection) / A.S. Neill -- Open education: open to what? / Kieran Egan -- Spheres of justice (selection) / Michael Walzer -- Democratic education (selection) / Amy Gutmann -- Moral education and the democratic idea / Israel Scheffler -- What is teaching? / Paul H. Hirst -- Education at the crossroads (selection) / Jacques Maritain -- Pedagogy of the oppressed (selection) / Paulo Freire -- Caring (selection) / Nel Noddings -- The philosophy of childhood (selection) / Gareth B. Matthews -- Education for modern man (selection) / Sidney Hook -- Two dogmas of curriculum / Jane Roland Martin -- The passion of pluralism: multiculturalism and the expanding community / Maxine Greene -- Hermeneutics, general studies, and teaching / Richard Rorty -- Traditionalists and their challengers / John R. Searle -- Asia in the core curriculum / W. Theodore de Bary.

Intended for philosophy of education courses, this anthology brings together classic writings on education by leading figures in the history of philosophy and contributions to the field by a variety of contemporary thinkers. The first section provides material from a sizeable collection of classic writers, enabling students to read the original sources themselves. The second section includes recent materials that reflect diverse approaches such as feminism, critical theory and multiculturalism.

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