Death Education and Research : Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780866568142 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 224 str.

W. G. Warren

Opis

A critical review of research and reflection in the area of death, with special emphasis on death education. Thought-provoking, often controversial reviews of and reactions to the current general domain of death phenomena—specifically death education—are addressed in this book.

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Contents
Preface

• Introduction
• Part I: Some Philosophical Considerations
• Traditional Western Thought and Existentialism
• Rights and Values
• Postscript: Non-Western Thought
• Concluding Remarks
• Part II: Some Psychological Considerations
• Bereavement
• Conceptualizing and Assessing Death Attitudes and Cognitions
• Lifespan Differences in Death Orientations
• The Empirical Study of Death Education
• The Personal Construction of Death and Death Education
• Concluding Remarks
• Part III: Social and Ideological Aspects
• Survey Data and Accountability
• Religion and Death Education
• Educational Radicalism
• Concluding Remarks
• Part IV: Praxis
• Curriculum
• Philosophy, Education, Death, and Life
• Concluding Remarks
• Conclusion
• Subject Index
• Author Index

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William G Warren