Philosophy of education
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Randall Curren
Contributors: Curren, Randall R
Series: Blackwell philosophy anthologies -- 27
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9781405130226; 9781405130233
Subjects: Education -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Part I:The nature and aims of education; title: Introduction: what is education?; title: Turning the psyche / Plato; title: Knowing how to rule and be ruled as justice demands / Plato; title: An educated person can speak well and persuade / Isocrates; title: The exercise of reason / John Locke; title: The education of nature / Jean-Jacques Rousseau; title: The democratic conception in education / John Dewey; title: Education as initiation / R.S. Peters; title: Banking v. problem-solving models of education / Paulo Freire; title: Liberal education and the relationship between education and work; title: Liberal v. mechanical education / Aristotle; title: Learning the value of work / Jean-Jacques Rousseau; title: Education for labor and leisure / John Dewey; title: Education and standards of living / Amartya Sen; title: The liberal studies in a global world / Otfried Höffe; title: Autonomy and exit rights; title: The child's right to an open future / Joel Feinberg; title: Justice, autonomy, and the good / Eamonn Callan; title: "Mistresses of their own destiny ": group rights, gender, and realistic rights of exit / Susan Moller Okin; title: Part II: Educational authority