This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers are still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Part 1 examines those ideas of the Idealists, especially T. H. Green, which had most bearing on the educational reforms carried out between 1870 and the 1920s and traces their connection with the philosophy and educational theory of Hegel and other post-Kantians. Part 2 is an historical survey, concentrating on the innovations in the organization and contents of education in England and Wales brought about by the administrators and educationists educated in philosophical idealism. Part 3 considers what relevance the philosophical and practical ideas of this interconnected group of reformers have to education today.
Author(s): Peter Gordon, John White
Edition: 1
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 344
Philosophers as educational reformers......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
General editor’s note......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
part 1 Philosophical idealism and education......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
Nature, man and God......Page 21
Morality and community......Page 29
Society and the state......Page 37
Education......Page 46
part 2 The work of the educational reformers......Page 58
The Oxford influence......Page 59
Adult education......Page 75
Towards a national system of education......Page 107
Religion, idealism and education......Page 135
Idealists as educational theorists......Page 143
The decline of idealist influence......Page 161
part 3 The idealist legacy today......Page 174
Education and its aims......Page 175
The realization of educational aims......Page 195
The theory and practice of education......Page 204
Biographical notes......Page 206
Notes......Page 211
Bibliography......Page 225
Index......Page 237
