Values, Education and the Human World (St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845400003 ISBN 13: 9781845400002

Verlag: Imprint Academic, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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Críticas:

"A multidisciplinary offering of a particular camp with passionately argued cases which should appeal to many with general interests in education, values and moral philosophy."

--Robert Bowie "New Blackfriars "

..".a timely and valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about education, values and culture."

--David Lorimer "Network Review "

"In this timely collection of essays, John Haldane brings together a range of eminent contributors. Originally presented as the Victor Cook Lectures, the texts comprise a coherent set of challenges to prevailing assumptions regarding values and education. The opening chapters frame the book in a forthright attack on the 'empiricist orthodoxy' that, with its disastrous effects on education, permeates the modern world. The chapters that follow take up the cause from one perspective or another, addressing questions of culture and excellence, politics and civil society, religion and pluralism, science and scientism, the aims of education and the nature of good teaching. The book brings these matters to the general educated reader in a lively, clear, and thought-provoking way."

--Paul Standish, Professor of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield

..".the collection is well organised, reasonably focused and highly engaging. Without exception, the essays are well written and thought-provoking... [the contributors have] managed very effectively the task of being both scholarly and accessible [and] have admirably fulfilled their brief to appeal to the general educated public."

--Journal of the Philosophy of Education

Reseña del editor:

The essays in this book consist of revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures delivered in the universities of St Andrews, London (Kings College), Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford, Glasgow and Leeds.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Imprint Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1845400003
• ISBN 13: 9781845400002
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
• Herausgeber: Haldane John