1st Edition

Education (RLE Edu K) Its Nature and Purpose

By M Jeffreys Copyright 1971
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

This book discusses the very nature and purpose of education and provides a foundation upon which more specialized studies in the psychology, history and sociology of education can be based. The book therefore surveys the main problems of human life – the relation of the individual and society, freedom and authority, continuity and change (i.e.growth), and underlying them all, the paradox that... Read more

Introduction. 1. Theory and Practice. 2. The Individual and Society. 3. Freedom and Authority. 4. Continuity and Change: The Nature of Growth. 5. Teaching and Learning. 6. Fact and Feeling: Kinds of Truth. 7. Morality and Religion. 8. Conclusion. Index.

Biography

M Jeffreys