Values, Education and the Human World

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The essays in this book consist of revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures delivered in the universities of St. Andrews, London, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford, Glasgow and Leeds.
Credit: Paul Standish, Professor of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield

"In this timely collection of essays, John Haldane brings together a range of eminent contributors. Originally presented as the Victor Cook Lectures, the texts comprise a coherent set of challenges to prevailing assumptions regarding values and education. The opening chapters frame the book in a forthright attack on the 'empiricist orthodoxy' that, with its disastrous effects on education, permeates the modern world. The chapters that follow take up the cause from one perspective or another
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, addressing questions of culture and excellence, politics and civil society, religion and pluralism, science and scientism, the aims of education and the nature of good teaching. The book brings these matters to the general educated reader in a lively, clear, and thought-provoking way."

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Credit: Robert Bowie

"A multidisciplinary offering of a particular camp with passionately argued cases which should appeal to many with general interests in education, values and moral philosophy."

Source: Journal of the Philosophy of Education

"...the collection is well organised, reasonably focused and highly engaging. Without exception, the essays are well written and thought-provoking... [the contributors have] managed very effectively the task of being both scholarly and accessible [and] have admirably fulfilled their brief to appeal to the general educated public."

Source: Network Review

Credit: David Lorimer

"...a timely and valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about education, values and culture."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 05 November 2004
- ISBN-13: 9781845400002
- Extent: Main content page count : 274
- Code: 1845400003
- Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 x 2 cm
- Weight: 400 grams
- List Price: £17.95
- ONIX Version 2.1, Version 3

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Title: Values, Education and the Human World
Edited by: John Haldane
Collection: St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Imprint: Imprint Academic

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