224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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A critical review of research and reflection in the area of death, with special emphasis on death education. Thought-provoking, often controversial reviews of and reactions to the current general domain of death phenomena--specifically death education--are addressed in this book. The author, skeptical that we can do very much with the phenomenon of death and dying, especially in relation to our... Read more
Contents
Preface
Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Some Philosophical Considerations
- Traditional Western Thought and Existentialism
- Rights and Values
- Postscript: Non-Western Thought
- Concluding Remarks
- Part II: Some Psychological Considerations
- Bereavement
- Conceptualizing and Assessing Death Attitudes and Cognitions
- Lifespan Differences in Death Orientations
- The Empirical Study of Death Education
- The Personal Construction of Death and Death Education
- Concluding Remarks
- Part III: Social and Ideological Aspects
- Survey Data and Accountability
- Religion and Death Education
- Educational Radicalism
- Concluding Remarks
- Part IV: Praxis
- Curriculum
- Philosophy, Education, Death, and Life
- Concluding Remarks
- Conclusion
- Subject Index
- Author Index
Biography
William G Warren
