Full Description
This volume critically and constructively discusses philosophical questions which have particular bearing on the formulation of educational aims. The book is divided into three major parts: the first deals with the nature of education, and discusses the various general aims, such as 'mental health', 'socialization' and 'creativity' which have been thought to characterize it; the second section is concerned with the nature of reason and its relationship to feeling, will and action; finally the development of different aspects of reason in an educational context is considered.
Contents
1. Education and the Educated Man 2. Education: The Engagement and its Frustration 3. 'Needs' in Education 4. Education as a Process of Growth 5. 'Mental Health' as an Aim of Education 6. Happiness and Education 7. Socialization and Education 8. Creativity and Education: A Philosophical Analysis 9. The Concept of Reason 10. A Rational Animal 11. Reasonableness 12. Reason and Passion 13. On belief 14. Objectivity 15. The Correspondence Theory of Truth 16. The Foundations of Knowledge 17. Practical Reason 18. Reason and Desire 19. Reasons and Causes 20. Belief and Will 21. Emotion 22. Liberal Education and the Nature of Knowledge 23. On Teaching to be Critical 24. Can Virtue be Taught? 25. Autonomy and Education 26. The Education of the Emotions 27. The Arts and the Education of Feeling and Emotion 28. Education and Human Development
