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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Carr |
| ISBN: | 041516317X 9780415163170 |
| OCLC Number: | 38992894 |
| Description: | xiii, 248 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The post-war rise and fall of educational epistemology / David Carr 1 -- Part I Knowledge in general 17 -- 1 Knowledge, truth and education / Harvey Siegel 19 -- 2 Interpretation, construction and the 'postmodern' ethos / David E. Cooper 37 -- Part II Knowledge in particular 51 -- 3 Science education after postmodernism / Jim Mackenzie 53 -- 4 Truth in religion: Wittgensteinian considerations / Fergus Kerr 68 -- 5 Truth, arts education and the 'postmodern condition' / Graham McFee 80 -- 6 Fictional truth / Lynne McFall 96 -- 7 Moral education and the objectivity of values / David Carr 114 -- 8 Virtues and human flourishing: a teleological justification / Jan W. Steutel 129 -- Part III The wider socio-political context 143 -- 9 The politics of difference and common education / Eamonn Callan 145 -- 10 Epistemology, politics and curriculum construction / D. C. Phillips 159 -- 11 Feminism, epistemology and education / Shirley Pendlebury 174 -- Part IV Knowledge and learning 189 -- 12 Learning as invention: education and constructivism / Christopher Winch 191 -- 13 Education, knowledge and critical thinking / Sharon Bailin 204 -- 14 Assessment and the challenge of scepticism / Kevin Williams 221. |
| Series Title: | Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education, 4. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Carr. |
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"timely. this is an important book for any person in the "world" of education, and especially for courses in professional ethics."<br>-"Educational Philosophy and Theory <br>"This book sets out to provoke, and it succeeds. Carr is right to claim in his concluding words that if teachers are more than purveyors of second-hand information or deliverers of someone else's curriculum, they need to be enable to ask philosophical question about the disciplines they are concerned with. This collection brings together essays appropriate to the task."<br>-"Philosophical Quarterly <br> Read more...
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