Philosophy and educational policy : a critical introduction / Christopher Winch and John Gingell.

By:

Winch, Christopher [author.]

Contributor(s):

Gingell, John [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxfordshire, England ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004Description: vii, 166 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415369576
9780415369572
0415369584
9780415369589

Subject(s):

Education -- Philosophy

DDC classification:

370.1 22

Contents:

1. Values, aims and society -- 2. Culture and the curriculum -- 3. Teaching and learning : knowledge and the imagination -- 4. Pedagogy, good practice and educational research -- 5. Standards, performance and assessment -- 6. Moral, personal and civic education -- 7. Autonomy and liberal education -- 8. Vocationalism, training and economics -- 9. Markets, politics and education -- 10. Education and multi-culturalism.

Review: "This comprehensive introduction to philosophy of education discusses issues that are of current public interest and debate. It locates education at the heart of questions concerned with culture, ethics, politics and economics, and shows how key educational issues have to be approached in a contextual way." "This book will be particularly useful to students on Education Studies courses and to those preparing for a career in teaching, to students of politics and to teachers undertaking further study in education."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This comprehensive introduction to philosophy of education discusses issues that are of current public interest and debate. It locates education at the heart of questions concerned with culture, ethics, politics and economics, and shows how key educational issues have to be approached in a contextual way." "This book will be particularly useful to students on Education Studies courses and to those preparing for a career in teaching, to students of politics and to teachers undertaking further study in education."--BOOK JACKET.

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