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Tiêu đề
Alasdair MacIntyre on education: In dialogue with Joseph Dunne
Tác giả
MacIntyre A.; Dunne J.
Năm xuất bản
2002
Source title
Journal of Philosophy of Education
Số trích dẫn
140
DOI
10.1111/1467-9752.00256
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Tóm tắt
This discussion begins from the dilemma, posed in some earlier writing by Alasdair MacIntyre, that education is essential but also, in current economic and cultural conditions, impossible. The potential for resolving this dilemma through appeal to 'practice', 'narrative unity', and 'tradition'(three core concepts in After Virtue and later writings) is then examined. The discussion also explores the relationship of education to the modern state and the power of a liberal education to create an 'educated public' very different in character from the electorates of contemporary democratic regimes. It concludes with some remarks on the role of education in combating prejudice against certain kinds of human difference. Joseph Dunne: Nearly forty years ago you wrote that 'the moral content of our educational system is simply a reflection of the moral content of our society' and went on to claim that the 'task of the educator is to stand against a current which will in fact probably overwhelm him'. 1 And twenty years later you were no more sanguine: 'Teachers', you wrote, 'are the forlorn hope of the culture of western modernity . . . the mission with which . . . [they] are entrusted is both essential and impossible'. 2 How are teachers who find truth in this characterisation of their task to respond to both sides of it? Alasdair MacIntyre: During the period of fifty or so years in which I have been a teacher, almost, but not quite always in universities, the tasks of the teacher have become ever more difficult. When I spoke about those difficulties in 1985 in my Richard Peters lecture, what I had in mind was the tension between two different sets of tasks, one imposed by the social and educational system on the teacher, the other arising from the very nature of education. What the system requires of teachers is the production of the kind of compliant manpower that the current economy needs, with the different levels of skill and kinds of skill that are required in a hierarchically ordered economy. Some few children are to become corporate executives and stockbrokers, some others lawyers.
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Nơi xuất bản
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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All Open Access; Green Open Access
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Scopus