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Author: Mal Leicester
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-19
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1135698694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume IV looks at the development of moral education, with particular relation to the context of cultural pluralism. Taking a theoretical approach, it discusses philosophical issues of moral relativism as well as the application of theory to good practice.
Author: Jack Russell Weinstein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0300163754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723-1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offering an interpretive methodology for approaching Smith's two major works, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments "and "The Wealth of Nations," Weinstein argues against the libertarian interpretation of Smith, emphasizing his philosophies of education and rationality. Weinstein also demonstrates that Smith should be recognized for a prescient theory of pluralism that prefigures current theories of cultural diversity.
Author: Mal Leicester
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780750710183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: F. Clark Power
Publisher: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe politics of pluralism has long been an intractable characteristic of American public education. Today, perhaps more so than ever, educators grapple with an awareness of the fact that liberal societies cannot promote a particular vision of the moral life and still respect and uphold the multi-cultural values of a pluralistic society. The Challenge of Pluralism examines the problematic issue of the role of moral education in a pluralistic society. The book takes an interdisciplinary focus, and contributors include well-known experts in such fields as psychology, educational policy studies, history of education, political history, curriculum, philosophy of education, theology, and gender studies. The essays delve into the myriad reasons for the moral education controversy and examine how the contemporary debate over the place of moral education in a pluralist society takes place within the larger context of the current arguments over the quality of American education. In addition to a historical examination of the values-pluralism issue, the volume offers critiques of specific educational regimens as they address the problem of moral education. This volume offers relevant, pertinent discussions that will benefit professional educators, social scientists, and any individual concerned about the quality of American education and its ability to provide adequate moral and values education. Contributors: Walter Nicgorski, Michael W. Apple, Rev. Michael Himes, Dwight Boyd, Ronnie A. F. Blakeney, Charles D. Blakeney, Daniel K. Lapsley, William Reese, Michael R. Olneck, Ann Diller, James W. Fowler, and F. Clark Power.
Author: John Theodore Klein
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 11
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tapio Puolimatka
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ashley Rogers Berner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 113750224X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created. The book challenges the philosophical basis for the traditional common school model and defends the educational pluralism that most liberal democracies enjoy. Berner provides a unique theoretical pathway that is neither libertarian nor state-focused and a pragmatic pathway that avoids the winner-takes-all approach of many contemporary debates about education. For the first time in nearly one hundred fifty years, changing the underlying structure of America’s public education system is both plausible and possible, and this book attempts to set out why and how.
Author: Raymond R. Roberts
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1608995852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaymond R. Roberts makes a liberal's case for teaching religion and morality in public schools by first examining the intersection of religion and public education. He shows how proposals for moral education in public schools are shaped by definitions of religion. He argues that the public education's critics overstate the failures of public education because they examine public schools in isolation from negative trends in the family, the economy, the media, etc. From there he describes how a theory of spheres of influence gives us a better perspective from which to understand public education, including its relationship with religion.
Author: Richard Pratte
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Thomas
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Kekes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1996-03-04
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 140082110X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKControversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values. Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet it avoids a chaotic relativism according to which all values are in the end arbitrary. Maintaining that good lives must be reasonable, but denying that they must conform to one true pattern, Kekes develops and justifies a pluralistic account of good lives and values, and works out its political, moral, and personal implications.
