| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Series |
International Library of the Philosophy of Education, 2 |
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International Library of the Philosophy of Education, 2
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Epigraph; Acknowledgments; 1 IntroductionTheory and education; Part I: Justification of Liberal Education; 2 Education and its justification; 3 Types of education; 4 The justification of liberal education; Part II: Content and Method; 5 Some preliminary ideas; 6 Three accounts considered; 7 The content of a liberal education; 8 The methods of a liberal education; Part III: Challenges to Liberal Education; 9 The challenge of economic utility; 10 The challenge of relativism, ideology and the state |
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11 Teachers, assessment and accountabilityNotes and references; Index |
| Summary |
Presents a modern characterization and justification of liberal education and defends such a view of liberal education against contemporary challenges. This book offers a positive account of the content of liberal education, and follows this with an account of teacher strategy, attitude and methodology appropriate to liberal education |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203861226 |
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0203861221 |
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