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A Companion to the Philosophy of Education (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) [Hardcover]

Randall Curren (Editor)

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March 31, 2003 0631228373 978-0631228370 1
A Companion to the Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to philosophical thinking about education.

  • Offers a state-of-the-art account of current and controversial issues in education, including issues pertaining to multiculturalism, special education, sex education, and academic freedom.
  • Written by an international team of leading experts, who are directly engaged with these profound and complex educational problems.
  • Serves as an indispensable guide to the field of philosophy of education.


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"The philosophy of education encompasses problems from many areas of philosophy –epistemology, philosophy of mind, professional ethics, and the theory of distributive justice, to name just a few – and the essays in this useful volume accurately reflect the field's breadth. Randall Curren has done an excellent job of enlisting accomplished and influential authors as contributors. His Companion will set the standard, both as a teaching tool and as a first source of information, for years to come." George Sher, Rice University

"Randall Curren has put together an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of essays on the philosophy of education. It should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary issues or historical figures in the field." Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to philosophical thinking about education. Written by an international team of leading experts, the volume opens with an authoritative survey of major figures and movements and then explores the most important - and at times controversial - topics of current interest in philosophy of education. Contributors explore such topics as educational testing and measurement, knowledge and truth, critical thinking, intelligence, and learning disabilities. They also address a range of much debated issues in the politics and ethics of schooling, including church-state issues, educational choice, educational justice, equality and standards of living, multiculturalism, the ethics of special education, and sex education. The final section looks at issues in the philosophy and ethics of higher education, including academic freedom, conflicts of academic and economic values, and racial justice. This volume is a vital and comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the philosophy of education.

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Slave or free? Citizen or foreign? Rich or poor? Male or female? These questions largely determined the course of one's education (paideia) - as of one's life - in ancient Athens. Read the first page
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civic minimalism, education classroom inclusion, schooling and educational choice, bottomless pit problem, educative authority, banality argument, civic minimalists, common school ideal, severe cognitive disabilities, conscious social reproduction, luck egalitarians, motivation and classroom management, tribal creed, expressive liberty, regular classroom inclusion, civic minimum, epistemic individualism, common educational goals, fluid age, epistemic arguments, common schooling, institutional neutrality, diverse convictions, public criterion, qua art
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New York, United States, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Frankfurt School, Princeton University Press, John Dewey, John Stuart Mill, Supreme Court, Kegan Paul, Nicomachean Ethics, Teachers College Press, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Clarendon Press, Collected Works, John Locke, Columbia University Press, University of Toronto Press, John Rawls, National Curriculum, New Haven, Southern Illinois University Press, Yale University Press
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