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The Philosophy of Open Education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 15) book cover

1st Edition

The Philosophy of Open Education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 15)

Edited By David A. Nyberg Copyright 1975
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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'Open', 'informal', and 'humanistic' are words used to describe new styles of education which depart from ordinary or traditional education.  Too often, however, these adjectives are used in a strongly polemical or self-justifying rather than analytical way. Often too, the grounds for accepting or rejecting open education are political or moral, instead of being based on a consideration of... Read more

Part 1: Problems of Definition  1. What's 'Open' about Open Education?  Brian V. Hill  2. Open Education: An Expression in Search of a Definition  Don Tunnell  3. Open Education: Open to What?  Kieran Egan  4.Openness: The Pedagogic Atmosphere  Donald Vandenberg  Part 2: Problems of Knowledge  5. That's Just Einstein's Opinion: The Atuocracy of Students' Reason in Open Education  Hugh G. Petrie  6. Teaching as Making Sense of What is Known  D. Bob Gowin  Part 3: Problems of Socialization  7. Subjectivity and Standards in the Humanities  R. S. Peters  8. Socialization, Social Models, and the Open Education Movement: Some Philosophical Considerations  Kathryn Morgan  9. Open Education and Social Criticism  Michael L Simmons, Jr.  10. Open Education: An Aspirin for the Plague  Part 4:Problems of freedom  11. Autonomy and Control: Toward a Theory of Legitimate Influence  Kenneth Strike  12. Freedom and Desire in the Summerhill Philosophy of Education  Leonard J Waks

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Nyberg, David A.

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