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Education, knowledge, and truth : beyond the postmodern impasse
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Education, knowledge, and truth : beyond the postmodern impasse

Author: David Carr
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Series: Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education, 4.
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In the 1960s educational philosophers showed enormous interest in the nature of knowledge and the curriculum. This work responds to the need to reinstate conceptual problems of truth, knowledge and  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
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 Read more...

 
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