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The common school and the comprehensive ideal : a defence by Richard Pring with complementary essays / edited by Mark Halstead and Graham Haydon.

Contributor(s): Pring, Richard | Halstead, Mark | Haydon, Graham | Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008Description: 1 online resource (xii, 339 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444307313; 1444307312; 1444307320; 9781444307320; 1282030175; 9781282030176Subject(s): Public schools -- United States | Education -- Aims and objectives | Public schools | EDUCATION -- History | EDUCATION -- Comparative | Education -- Aims and objectives | Public schools | United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Common school and the comprehensive ideal.DDC classification: 370.973 LOC classification: LA217.2 | .C663 2008Online resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal; Plate 1; The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 The Common School; INTRODUCTION; THE COMMONSCHOOL; COMMUNITY; CULTURE; THE COMMONSCHOOLREVISITED; EDUCATIONAL AIMS REVISITED; FOSTERING DIFFERENCE -- AGAINST THE COMMONSCHOOL; COMMONSCHOOLOR COMMONSCHOOLSYSTEM?; REFERENCES; Part I Defending and Questioning the Comprehensive Ideal; 2 In Search of the Comprehensive Ideal: By Way of an Introduction; 3 On the Necessity of Radical State Education: Democracy and the Common School.

Summary: A topical and provocative volume that invites consideration of the most fundamental issues concerning future educational provision: what is the purpose of our schools, and what should we do in them?: Cutting-edge research by contributors who are leading figures internationally in philosophy and education, for whom these issues have been particular points of concern; Includes a substantial keynote essay by leading philosopher of education, Richard Pring, which is the springboard for the complementary essays that follow; Engages with questions Pring raises under five themes: defending and questi.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A topical and provocative volume that invites consideration of the most fundamental issues concerning future educational provision: what is the purpose of our schools, and what should we do in them?: Cutting-edge research by contributors who are leading figures internationally in philosophy and education, for whom these issues have been particular points of concern; Includes a substantial keynote essay by leading philosopher of education, Richard Pring, which is the springboard for the complementary essays that follow; Engages with questions Pring raises under five themes: defending and questi.

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