Education and the education of teachers
Peters R.S.
2005
Education and the Education of Teachers
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10.4324/9780203973813
This collection of papers represents the author's developing thought over the past ten years about education and the education of teachers. The first two papers were given at conferences and represent attempts at the end of the 1960s to make clearer what might be meant by 'education' and by the 'quality of education'-a phrase that is often used in public debate-e.g. about comprehensive schools, but seldom analysed. The next two papers, dealing with liberal education, are more recent products. In the first, ambiguities are explored in the interpretation of liberal education as 'knowledge for its own sake', as general education, and as non-authoritarian education, and attention is drawn to the fact that no determinate answer is given by any of these interpretations to Herbert Spencer's question, 'What knowledge is of most worth?' In the second paper, which was first read at the Hull department of politics, the dilemmas and problems facing any teacher who is committed to liberal education, in any of its senses, are sketched. The fifth paper is a reprint of the author's attempt to improve on, as well as clarify, his first attempt to justify education in Ethics and Education. The sixth paper was originally given to the Joint Association of Classics Teachers, and is a constructive attempt at bringing out what is acceptable in Plato's views about education instead of concentrating on the easier and more usual task of emphasizing what is unacceptable. © This arrangement and selection R.S.Peters 1977. All right reserved.
Hare R.M., The Language of Morals, (1952); Peters R.S., Ethics and Education, (1966)
Taylor and Francis
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