Beyond the Present and the Particular (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 2): A Theory of Liberal Education

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Author(s): Charles H. Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 206

Cover......Page 1
Beyond the Present and
the Particular:
A Theory of Liberal Education......Page 3
Contents......Page 6
Epigraph......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Introduction—Theory and education......Page 11
Part I: Justification of Liberal Education......Page 17
2 Education and its justification......Page 18
3 Types of education......Page 23
4 The justification of liberal education......Page 30
Part II: Content and Method......Page 45
5 Some preliminary ideas......Page 46
6 Three accounts considered......Page 60
7 The content of a liberal education......Page 89
8 The methods of a liberal education......Page 113
Part III: Challenges to Liberal Education......Page 133
9 The challenge of economic utility......Page 135
10 The challenge of relativism, ideology and the state......Page 155
11 Teachers, assessment and accountability......Page 184
Notes and references......Page 193
Index......Page 203