TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey, Richard
AU  - Bailey,Richard
TI  - The Philosophy of Education:  An Introduction
SN  - 9781441126856
U1  - N48 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Education
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. What is the Philosophy of Education ............4  What is philosophy? What is Education ................5  Writing philosophy of Education .............10  The Standard Pattern ......10  Different types of Philosophical Thesis ............12  Some worked examples .............15  The practical Importance of Philosophy ..........18  2. Does education need Philosophy ...........21  Recent history of Philosophy in Educational Studies ................22  Nuffield Review .............24  Doing philosophy ...............28  Education Aims .............29  Culture and Community ..............30  Learning and Teaching ...............30  Provision ...........32  Further Reading ........33  3. What is Education for ..........35  What is education and must an educator have an aim ................36  Knowledge for its own sake .............38  Education for work ............39  Education for well-being ............42  Further Reading ............46  4. What should go on the Curriculum ..............48  What could go on the Curriculum..........49  The Academic Curriculum ..........54  The Virtue-based curriculum ...........57  5. Can we teach ethics.............60  A lack of Agreement on what is good ................61  Historical changes in moral thinking ..........64  Further Reading ...............72  6. Do children have any rights ..............74  The choice theory of rights .............75  The interest theory ............76  The interest theory ...............78  Why might children not have rights ..........78  Children`s Interests .........81  7. Can schools make good citizens ..........86  What is a Citizen .......87  Conceptions of Citizenship ..........87  Making citizens ..........91  Sites of Citizen learning .............93  8. Should state control Education .............99  The argument from autonomy ............103  Parents and communities versus the state ............107  Marketizing education ...........109  Challenging the state ...........110  The Escuela moderna, 1904-1907............110  9. Educational Opportunities - who shall we leave out ......113  Educational Opportunity ........114  Equality of Outcome .........116  Equality of Opportunity .........117  what is meritocracy ..........118  Desert and merit - who deserves provision ......119  who would you reward ..........120  Are you elitist........120  the nature of Difference ..........123  10 . Should parents have a say in their children`s Schooling ..........125  Arguments in favour of parental rights .......126  Arguments against parental rights .............130  11. What`s Wrong with indoctrination and Brainsashing .......136  The problem of indoctrination ................138  The apparent inevitability of Indoctrination ........143  so, what`s Wrong with indoctrination ..........145  12. Reading the Philosophy of Education ..........147  Further reading .......157  Useful website ........157  13. Writing the philosophy of Education .......158  Plato and Dialogue ......159  Talking philosophy .......161  Philosophy and Literature ..........163  Further Reading .............166
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