Liberalism, Human Values and Schools as Microcosms of Society : Rediscovering Education for a Moral Future (Hardcover)

Introduction

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PART I Philosophy‘s Fall from Grace

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Chapter 1. From Plato to Rousseau to Dewey. Do teachers today still need to be philosophers?

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PART II Means and Ends in Education

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Chapter 2. Freedom versus Authority and Knowledge versus Experience. Should schools be putting ideas in - or drawing them out??

Chapter 3. Instrumental Approaches to Education: Do calls for better computers and more maths really add up?

Chapter 4. From Froebel to Google: Integrated Education and the importance of creative play.

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PART III Liberalism and Human Values

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Chapter 5. Count Alexis De Tocqueville and the Limits of Individualism. The ongoing struggle to reconcile the aims of social equality with free development.

Chapter 6. Education in Europe: still divided between Church and State

Chapter 7. Schools and Sex: children on the frontline of gender wars

Chapter 8. Education as the Foundation of a Democratic Society