| Description |
viii, 551 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Classic Theories -- Plato. Meno. Protagoras (selection). The Republic (selection) -- Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics (selection). Politics (selection) -- John Locke. Some Thoughts Concerning Education (selection) -- Jean Jacques Rousseau. Emile (selection) -- Immanuel Kant. Thoughts on Education (selection) -- John Stuart Mill. Inaugural Address at St. Andrews -- Alfred North Whitehead. The Aims of Education and Other Essays (selection) -- John Dewey. The Child and the Curriculum. Democracy and Education (selection). Experience and Education -- Pt. II. Contemporary Issues -- A. S. Neill. Summerhill (selection) -- Kieran Egan. Open Education: Open to What? -- Michael Walzer. Spheres of Justice (selection) -- Amy Gutmann. Democratic Education (selection) -- Israel Scheffler. Moral Education and the Democratic Ideal -- Paul H. Hirst. What Is Teaching? -- Jacques Maritain. Education at the Crossroads (selection) -- Paulo Freire |
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed (selection) -- Nel Noddings. Caring (selection) -- Gareth B. Matthews. The Philosophy of Childhood (selection) -- Sidney Hook. Education for Modern Man (selection) -- Jane Roland Martin. Two Dogmas of Curriculum -- Maxine Greene. The Passion of Pluralism: Multiculturalism and the Expanding Community -- Richard Rorty. Hermeneutics, General Studies, and Teaching -- John R. Searle. Traditionalists and Their Challengers -- Wm. Theodore de Bary. Asia in the Core Curriculum |
| Summary |
"Brings together classic writings on education by leading figures in the history of philosophy, along with notable contributions to the field by a variety of contemporary thinkers |
| Notes |
Expanded and updated ed. of: The philosophical foundations of education, 1970 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Education -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Cahn, Steven M.
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| LC no. |
96005368 |
| ISBN |
0070096198 (acid-free paper) |
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