1st Edition
Prologue to Education (RLE Edu K) An Inquiry into Ends and Means
By John Wales
Copyright 1979
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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Many people have come to feel that the controversy on education in Britain has got bogged down in political polemics, and that common polarisations between ‘conventional’ and ‘progressive’, ‘selective’ and ‘comprehensive’, ‘elite’ and ‘democratic’ are both unrealistic and damaging. The author believes that a new educational ethic is needed now that former religious sanctions are no longer... Read more
Foreword. Preface. Part 1: Ends. 1. The Ethics of Education. 2. What Do We Mean by Good? 3. Theory and Practice. 4. The Common Ground of Values. 5. Validity and Truth. 6. Hypothesis and Belief. 7. The Concept of a Rational Good. Part 2 Means 8. The Assumptions of Education. 9. Liberty and Equality. 10. The Use and Abuse of Convention. 11. The Ethical Basis of Coercion. 12. Co-education. 13. The Concept of a Liberal Education. 14. Freedom and Growth.
Biography
John Wales
