| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Philosophical Perspectives on Compulsory Education / Marianna Papastephanou -- Part 1: The General, Theoretical Challenges -- Constants of Education / Volker Kraft -- Compulsory Common Schooling and Individual Difference / Robin Barrow -- Education, Liberty and Authority: Justifying Compulsory Education / Geoffrey Hinchliffe -- Compulsion and the Educational Conversation / Kevin Williams -- Compulsion Without Coercion: Liberal Education Through Uncommon Schooling / Naoko Saito -- On the Justification of Compulsory Schooling / Anders Schinkel -- Part 2: The Many Faces of Challenges Confronting the Compulsory -- Compulsory Education Cycles Down / David J. Blacker -- The Abnormality of Modern Education Systems in Postmodern Democracies and Its Implications for Philosophy of Education / Aharon Aviram -- Conscripts or Volunteers? The Status of Learners in Faith-Schools / Kevin Williams -- Is The Idea of Compulsory Schooling Ridiculous? / Helen E. Lees -- Homework on Trial / Andrew Davis -- Understanding Transformation / Amrita Zahir -- Happiness and Education: Recognising a Fundamental Attunement / Paul Gibbs |
| Summary |
Contributions to this volume from diverse perspectives explore pedagogical practices of the contemporary world, namely the school. Themes of autonomy, authority and liberalism are surfaced in the debates and highly innovative insights presented in this book where philosophical perspectives shed light on the theoretical underpinnings of formal education and schooling. How we interpret the self, humanity and the world connects to perspectives on compulsory education. General theoretical issues surrounding compulsory education are often tested through more concrete aspects of schooling, some of which have a specific origin in, or particular bearing on, the current socio-political conditions of schooling. For this reason, this book is sensitive to context and to empirical and concrete dimensions of the educational venture, and takes into account current concerns about neo-liberal policies and their effects on schooling. As a philosophical-educational intervention in the topic of compulsory education, these chapters draw connections between older philosophical debates on compulsoriness and new developments and emphases in schooling |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 16, 2013) |
| Subject |
Education, Compulsory -- Philosophy
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Papastephanou, Marianna, editor
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| ISBN |
9789400773110 |
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9400773110 |
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