The contributors to this collection of essays offer a stimulating and varied range of approaches to this developing area. The volume includes discussions on the concept of education and such related topics as indoctrination and the nature and scope of the theory of education. Aspects of education including the field of moral education, and issues which are reflected prominently in the curricula of such subjects as Mathematics and Science in schools and colleges are considered.
Author(s): Glenn Langford, D J O'Connor
Edition: 1
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 280
Contents......Page 6
General editor’s note......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Part 1 Education......Page 12
1 The concept of education......Page 13
2 The concept of indoctrination......Page 36
3 The nature and scope of educational theory (1)......Page 47
4 The nature and scope of educational theory (2)......Page 62
Part 2 Education and values......Page 70
5 Education—a moral concept......Page 71
6 Moral autonomy as an aim of moral education......Page 84
7 Values in education (1)......Page 98
8 Values in education (2)......Page 113
Part 3 Aspects of education......Page 122
9 Language and moral education......Page 123
10 Is religious education possible?......Page 136
11 Aesthetic education......Page 158
12 The problem of curriculum sequence in mathematics......Page 173
13 Philosophy of education and the place of science in the curriculum......Page 187
Index......Page 206
Name index......Page 212
