Educational Theory: Philosophical and Po

ISBN-13: 9781573928380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 350 str.

Edmund Wall

Opis

The debate over the proper approach to educating our youth on the post-secondary level has never been more contentious than now. The campus has become polarized in a sometimes heated power struggle between traditionalists who argue that the canon of timeless classics is the indispensable foundation for a good education and reconstructionists who would reform the curriculum to reflect the diversity of today's multicultural society.

Unlike other works offered today in the philosophy of education, this anthology combines classic and contemporary approaches to educational theory. It thus takes a first step toward finding solutions to the current debate in both traditional and nontraditional scholarship.

Divided into three main sections -- classics, politics and education, and free speech on campus -- the collection includes the famous names of history -- Plato, Aristotle, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and John Dewey, as well as contemporary contributors -- Allan Bloom, Sidney Hook, Mortimer Adler, Paulo Freire, Michael W. Apple, Nobuo Shimahara, Robert L. Simon, Henry David Aiken, Amy Gutman, Thomas C. Grey, Alan L. Keyes, Charles R. Lawrence III, and Nadine Strossen.

This timely collection of important essays on a conflict that deeply divides the academic community is a must for educators and students alike.