Plato and Education (RLE Edu K)
Plato and Education (RLE Edu K)

Author: Robin Barrow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 113649474X

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This introduction to Plato’s philosophical and educational thought examines Plato’s views and relates them to issues and questions that occupy philosophers of education. Robin Barrow stresses the relevance of Plato today, while introducing the student both to Plato’s philosophy and to contemporary educational debate. In the first part of the book the author examines Plato’s historical background and summarizes the Republic. Successive chapters are concerned with the critical discussion of specific educational issues. He deals with questions relating to the impartial distribution of education, taking as a starting point Plato’s celebrated dictum that unequals should be treated unequally. He examines certain methodological concepts such as ‘discovery-learning’ and ‘play’ and also raises the wider question of children’s freedom. He looks critically at the content of the curriculum and discusses Plato’s theory of knowledge and attitude to art. Finally Robin Barrow discusses Plato’s view of moral education and the related problem of what constitutes moral indoctrination

Educating the Virtues (RLE Edu K)
Educating the Virtues (RLE Edu K)

Author: David Carr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1136492712

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Tracing the views on moral life of such past philosophers as Plato, Aristotle and Kant, as well as of such theorists as Durkheim, Freud, Piaget and Kohlberg, the author sets forth a full discussion of the nature and educational implications of the idea of moral virtue.

Plato, Time, and Education
Plato, Time, and Education

Author: Brian P. Hendley

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1438406452

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This collection of original essays pays tribute to the man by exploring topics that have interested him through a long and productive career. Plato's mathematical imagery, his theory of perception, the role of engineering techne in the origin of Greek science, time and free will in Kant, Whitehead as teacher of teachers, mapping friendships, Kierkegaard and the necessity of forgery. These and other topics are given fresh treatments meant to stimulate further philosophical thinking in the spirit of Brumbaugh himself.

The Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)
The Philosophy of Education (RLE Edu K)

Author: Harry Schofield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1136491813

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There are many students who find philosophy of education difficult, because they have never received teaching in the basic essentials of general philosophy. This book begins by asking the basic question ‘what is philosophy?’ and examines a number of possible answers. Step by step the reader is introduced to the modern techniques of linguistic and concept analysis. Whenever a technical term is used it is explained and illustrated by reference to familiar situations in everyday life.

Educational Theory
Educational Theory

Author: T. W. Moore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 0415698197

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This book comes strongly to the defence of educational theory and shows that it has a structure and integrity of its own. The author argues that the validity of educational theory may best be judged in terms of the various assumptions made in it. His argument is illustrated by a review and critique of some particularly influential theories of education: those of Plato, Rousseau, James Mill and John Dewey. He stresses the need for an on-going, contemporary, general theory of education and examines the ways in which the disciplines of psychology, sociology and philosophy can contribute to a general theory of this kind.

Education (RLE Edu K)
Education (RLE Edu K)

Author: M VC Jeffreys

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1136492224

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This book discusses the very nature and purpose of education and provides a foundation upon which more specialized studies in the psychology, history and sociology of education can be based. The book therefore surveys the main problems of human life – the relation of the individual and society, freedom and authority, continuity and change (i.e.growth), and underlying them all, the paradox that aspiration and frustration are continually linked in human experience. The educational implications of these various problems are considered in such a way that the methods as well as the aims of education are discussed.

Educational Theory (RLE Edu K)
Educational Theory (RLE Edu K)

Author: Terence W Moore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 113649054X

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This book comes strongly to the defence of educational theory and shows that it has a structure and integrity of its own. The author argues that the validity of educational theory may best be judged in terms of the various assumptions made in it. His argument is illustrated by a review and critique of some particularly influential theories of education: those of Plato, Rousseau, James Mill and John Dewey. He stresses the need for an on-going, contemporary, general theory of education and examines the ways in which the disciplines of psychology, sociology and philosophy can contribute to a general theory of this kind.

Education (RLE Edu K)
Education (RLE Edu K)

Author: Herbert Phillipson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1136492011

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Contributing to early debates on nature versus nurture, schools and the social environment, town planning and a free comprehensive education, the author discusses key educational issues against the background of a distintegrating Europe in the midst of war.

Theory & Practice in Education (RLE Edu K)
Theory & Practice in Education (RLE Edu K)

Author: R F Dearden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 113649250X

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The main concern of the volume is the relation of theory to practice in education but the book also reviews the state of educational theory, and its relation to politics. Beginning with a group of papers on specific areas of the relation between theory and practice, the book goes on to discuss aspects of the curriculum, such as curricular principles in recent official reports, the newly emerging theme of general abilities, and controversial material in the curriculum. The theme of the third group of articles is personal autonomy, one of the very few generally supported educational aims of recent years, and a final group presents a retrospective view of the Plowden Report.