TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knight,George R
TI  - Philosophy & education: an introduction in Christian perspective 
SN  - 9781883925543
AV  - LB1025 .P455 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Berrien Springs, Michigan
PB  - Andrews University Press
KW  - Christian education
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Education
N1  - 1 The Nature of Philosophy and Education; 10 A Christian Appraoch to Education; 11 But What If I Teach in a Public School?; 2 Philosophic Issues in Education; 3 Traditional Philosophies and Education; 4 Modern Philosophies and Education; 5 The Postmodern Impulse; 6 Contemporary Theories of Education; 7 Analytic Philosophy and Education; 8 The Necessity of Building a Personal Philosophy of Education; 9 A Christian Approach to Philosophy; List of Figures; Part Four: Christian Teachers in Public Schools; Part One: Basic Concepts; Part Three: Philosophy and Christian Education; Part Two: Philosophy and Education; 2; A Central Problem of Christian Education --; The Unsatisfactory Nature of Eclecticism for Christian Education --; Toward a Philosophy of Christian Education; Aspects of Philosophy --; The Relationship of Selected Learning-Related Concepts --; The Relationship of Philosophy to Educational Practice --; The Relationship of Educational Theories to Their Philosophic Sources --; Purposes of Christian Education that Inform Teaching --; Curriculum Model: Self=contained Subject Matter Areas --; Curriculum Model: The Bible as the Whole --; Curriculum Model: The Bible as Foundational and Contextual --; The Contextual Role of the Biblical Perspective --; A Developmental Model of Discipline; Initial Thoughts on a Perplexing Issue --; Shifting Ground in a Controversial Area: A Historical Perspective --; Equal Access and the Rights of Students --; The Teacher in the Classroom --; Summary of Part Four; Metaphysics --; Epistemology --; Axiology --; Philosophic Issues and Educational Goals and Practices --; Summary of Part One; Pragmatism --; Existentialism --; Critique and Perspective; Preliminary Observations --; Philosophic Roots --; Varieties of Postmodernism --; Postmodernism and Education --; Critique and Perspective; Progressivism --; Educational Humanism in Relation to Progressivism --; Perennialism --; Essentialism --; Reconstructionism --; Futurism in Relation to Reconstructionism --; Critical Pedagogy and Constructivism in Relation to Reconstructionism --; Behaviorism --; Educational Anarchism: The Deschooling Proposal --; Home Schooling --; Critique and Perspective; Some Observations Concerning Metaphysics --; A Christian Perspective on Epistemology --; Some Axiological Considerations --; Christian Philosophy and Education; The Analytic Movement in Philosophy --; The Role of Philosophic Analysis in Education --; Evaluation of Analytic Philosophy --; The Complementary Roles of Analytic and Comprehensive Philosophy --; Critique and Perspective --; Summary of Part Two; The Function and Limitation of Labels --; Idealism --; Realism --; Neo-scholasticism --; Critique and Perspective; The Nature of the Student and the Goal of Christian Education --; The Role of the Christian Teacher --; Curricular Considerations --; The Social Function of Christian Education --; Summary of Part Three; Why Study Philosophy of Education? --; What Is Philosophy? --; What Is Education? --; The Role of the School in Society; 2
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