Problems in Primary Education (RLE Edu K)
Problems in Primary Education (RLE Edu K)

Author: R F Dearden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1136492577

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The first part of the book discusses aims, who should determine them and how they might be determined. The second part discusses some more specific topics of learning and teaching, such as learning how to learn, the integrated day and the use of competition. The author distinguishes three broad levels of thought in looking at schools: the details of choice and decision; the general principles which are, or ought to be, guiding that detailed practice; and the theoretical commentaries on the guiding principles available from the various disciplines which constitute the study of education.

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

Author: R F Dearden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 113649264X

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This volume provides a rigorous examination of theoretical concepts such as need, interest, growth, play, experience, activity and self-expression. It also makes an important contribution towards getting a closely argued educational theory. In the first part of the book the author establishes general aims and ends with suggestions as to what the curriculum ought to be. The second part is concerned with the procedures of learning and teaching appropriate to such a curriculum.

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.

Educational Theory and Its Foundation Disciplines (RLE Edu K)
Educational Theory and Its Foundation Disciplines (RLE Edu K)

Author: Paul H Hirst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1136492364

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At the time this book was first published the disciplines of philosophy of education, educational psychology, sociology of education and the history of education had developed rapidly. The papers in this volume outline the developments that took place. The first paper analyses the nature of a theory concerned with determining practice and the place of academic disciplines within that. What emerges is the crucial role of these disciplines, but also the need to develop much more adequately a domain of practical principles, assessed and critically reformulated in the light of those disciplines. The following papers are concerned with the contributions four of those disciplines are now making.

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.

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: 306

ISBN-13: 1136491805

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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.

Moral Philosophy for Education (RLE Edu K)
Moral Philosophy for Education (RLE Edu K)

Author: Robin Barrow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1136494812

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Teachers and students are frequently confused as to the relevance of abstract philosophical theorising to the reality of the classroom and this book is distinctive for the attention it devotes to philosophy and its potential contribution to practical matters, and education in particular. The author is critical of many current views of the philosophy of education and argues the validity of philosophy as an integral part of education in its own right, against the creation of a ‘new’ branch of philosophy, the ‘philosophy of education’. The book stresses that relativist ethical theories are no more ‘known’ to be valid than the absolutist theories they have replaced, and in the second section the author argues for a modified utilitarian position. The final section enables the reader to relate the general argument of the second part to several specific issues.

Perspectives on Plowden (RLE Edu K)
Perspectives on Plowden (RLE Edu K)

Author: R S Peters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1136491317

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The Plowden Report, Children and their Primary Schools (1967), had a huge impact on education in the latter 20th century, but at the time was labelled as left-wing, and of no practical use to the problems of education in the 1960s. The contributors to this volume were all concerned with the educational thinking of the Plowden Report, and its appropriateness or otherwise to the educational needs of the day. In quarters where the Plowden Report was treated as an authoritative textbook, the views in this volume provide a valuable critique.

Friedrich Froebel and English Education (RLE Edu K)
Friedrich Froebel and English Education (RLE Edu K)

Author: Evelyn Lawrence

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1136492151

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This collection of essays describes Froebel’s life and the history of his influence on the education of young children in Britain. It also traces the religious roots of his philosophy and discusses his psychological and educational principles in the light of developments in these fields since his day.

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

Author: Paul H Hirst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1136492291

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This book explores the implications for the curriculum, for teaching and for the authority structure of schools and colleges of an analysis of ‘education’ in which the development of knowledge and understanding is accorded a central position. The book explains what philosophy of education is, and by concentrating on its central concepts, initiates readers into exploring it for themselves. It also serves as a succinct introduction to the growing literature on philosophy of education in the UK.