Philosophical reflections for educators /
Contains essays written by an international team of philosophers and educators that reflect on and critically discuss key philosophical concepts, issues and challenges in education today.
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| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Cengage Learning Asia
c2008.
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| Series: | Gale virtual reference library
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Philosophers on education - Classical traditions of education: Socrates and Confucius
- Plato's Republic and moral education
- The state, the soul, virtue and potential: Aristotle on education
- Dewey's continuing relevance to thinking in education
- Montessori's philosophy of movement
- Wittgenstein: rule-following paradox, forms of life and education
- Intellectualism in education: the educational philosophy of R. S. Peters and P. H. Hirst
- The emancipatory value of Habermas' critical theory to education
- Herbert A. Simon: helping professionals find themselves
- Part II: Philosophies and issues in education - Confucianism, corruption and the public ethos
- Education and Indian philosophy
- Critical humanism in Islamic educational philosophy
- Education and the philosophy of mind and brain
- Education and the republic of science
- Epistemology and education
- Values education and the community of ethical inquiry
- Religious education and indoctrination
- Philosophical questions: their nature and function
- Reflection: some critical issues for educators
- Towards an educational philosophy for the twenty-first century classroom.