The Demands of Liberal Education
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 September 1999
- ISBN 9780198295440
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages250 pages
- Size 243x162x18 mm
- Weight 511 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Demands of Liberal Education analyses and applies contemporary liberal political theory to certain key problems within the field of educational theory. Levinson examines problems centred around determining appropriate educational aims, content and institutional structure and argues that liberal governments should exercise a much greater control over education than they now do. Combining theoretical with empirical research, this book will interest and provoke scholars, policy makers, educators, parents, and all citizens interested in education politics.
MoreLong description:
What should the aims of education be in a liberal society and who should exercise control over education? How can children be taught to become good citizens of a pluralistic state? The Demands of Liberal Education seeks to answer these questions by drawing upon political theory, philosophy of education, and empirical research to develop a liberal theory of children's education that is provocative and new. The book argues that contrary to the assumptions of many philosophers, educators, parents and politicians, the liberal state is obligated as a matter of justice to help all children develop the capacity for autonomy. Levinson argues that liberal governments should exercise much greater control over schools than they now do.
In The Demands of Liberal Education, Meira Levinson, an Oxford-trained political philosopher who has worked extensively within the American public school system, has written a book that no contemporary theorist of education or liberal political theory can afford to ignore.
Table of Contents:
Autonomy and the Foundations of Contemporary Liberalism
The Development of Autonomy
Modifying the Liberal Educational Ideal
Culture, choice, and Citizenship: Schooling Private Citizens in the Public Square
Making Sense of it All: Transforming Political Theory into Educational Policy
