1st Edition

Indoctrination and Education

By I. A. Snook Copyright 1972
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

The term ‘indoctrination’ is generally used to express disapproval of what someone is doing to the minds of children. The democrat uses it to condemn communist schools, the humanist to criticize programmes of religious instruction, the liberal to protest at the inculcation of racist attitudes. If the term is to function in educational theory in a meaningful way, it cannot remain merely a term... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Criteria of indoctrination  3. Indoctrination and intentions  4. Indoctrination and education  5. Indoctrination and other concepts 

Biography

I. A. Snook was a philosopher of education, critical policy scholar, practical ethicist, social justice advocate and public intellectual.

Review of the first publication

‘Snook provides an up-to-date, informative review of the major analyses of the concept of indoctrination offered in the preceding decade.’

William Hare, Dalhousie University, Halifax