Enterprise and Liberal Education
BRIDGES D.
1992
Journal of Philosophy of Education
29
10.1111/j.1467-9752.1992.tb00267.x
Recent initiatives from the Employment Department in the UK have promoted ‘enterprise education’. This paper discusses the relationship of enterprise education to the more established notion of a liberal education. It is argued that enterprise education should be understood not as replacing the aspirations of a liberal education, but rather as supporting or extending them. It does this (i) by helping pupils to understand what is arguably a significant form of life; (ii) by developing understanding of the economic conditions of our social functioning; and (iii) by developing personal qualities which equip us practically to pursue our chosen paths in a competitive and sometimes hostile world. Copyright © 1992, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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