| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Description |
393 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
McGraw-Hill series in education |
|
Foundations in education.
|
|
McGraw-Hill series in education.
|
| Contents |
I. School and society : 1. The school and social change : The social as basic category ; The social basis of human nature ; Progress and status quo ; Conservative function of the school ; Progressive function of the school ; Neutral function of the school ; The school and revolutionary change -- 2. The economic order and education : Subsistence and prosperity economies ; Types of economy ; The role of work in education ; Socioeconomic class structure ; Teachers and economic class orientation ; Private property and the profit motive -- 3. Politics and education : Autocracy ; Aristocracy, oligarchy, and plutocracy ; Democracy as respect for dignity of the person ; Democracy as freedom ; Democracy as equalitarianism ; Democracy as sharing -- 4. The state and education : Pluralism and totalitarianism ; Anarchism ; The laissez faire state ; The positive or welfare state ; The family ; Church and state ; Nationalism and internationalism -- II. Aims : 5. Educational aims : The determination of educational aims ; How aims function ; The proximate aims of education ; The ultimate aims of education -- 6. Aims and human nature : The mind-body problem ; Original nature ; Modifiability of original nature ; Freedom of the will ; Integration -- 7. Aims and cosmology : The need for metaphysics ; Appearance and reality ; Change and the changeless ; The novel and the primordial ; The individual and the universal ; Time and eternity ; Natural and supernatural -- III. Curriculum : 8. Curriculum : The child and the curriculum ; The curriculum and theory of knowledge ; Knowledge as truth ; Normative aspects of the curriculum ; The curriculum and value theory ; Hierarchies of value ; Aesthetic dimension of the curriculum -- 9. Religious education : Secularism ; Humanistic religious education ; Theology of education ; Fallen and supernatural nature ; Sin, regeneration, and grace -- 10. Moral education : Freedom and authority ; Schoolroom discipline ; Moral principles and the curriculum -- IV. Method : 11. Epistemological aspects of method : Learning ; Ways of knowing ; The role of intelligence ; Teaching ; The method of authoritative exposition ; The problem method of inquiry ; Logical order of the lesson ; Psychological order of the lesson -- 12. Axiological aspects of method : Interest ; Effort and discipline ; Kinds of motivation ; Social structure as method ; Individual differences ; Measurement and evaluation --V. Professional rights and duties : 13. Academic freedom and civil liberty : Indoctrination ; Academic freedom ; Civil liberty -- 14. Professional ethics : Principal dimensions of a professional ethic ; Applications of professional ethics ; The enforcement of professional ethic -- VI. Systematic education philosophy : 15. Educational philosophy as a discipline : Common sense ; Educational philosophy as speculative ; Educational philosophy as normative ; Educational philosophy as critical ; Educational philosophy in a "new key" ; Philosophy and science ; Theory and practice ; Categories of educational philosophy -- 16. Schools of educational philosophy : Pragmatic naturalism ; Reconstructionism ; Romantic naturalism ; Existentialism ; Organicism ; Idealism ; Realism ; Rational humanism ; Scholastic realism ; Fascism ; Communism ; Democracy -- 17. Consensus among philosophies of education : Importance of consensus ; Practical agreements ; Philosophical agreements ; Philosophical disagreements ; Methods for consensus. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Education -- Philosophy.
|
|
