Philosophical Documents in Education, Pearson New International Edition, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (October 3, 2013) © 2014

  • Tony W. Johnson The Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina
  • Ronald F. Reed
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Title overview

  • Selections from a diverse range of thinkers and educators, including Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Jefferson, Horace Mann, Martin Luther King Jr., Maxine Greene, Paulo Freire, Jane Roland Martin, and Parker J. Palmer, exposes the reader to perspectives on what it means to be educated often omitted from other anthologies.
  • A comprehensive introduction assists the reader in placing both classical and contemporary thinkers in a philosophical context, and helps the reader to better understand the educational significance of each of the great minds included in this edition.
  • End-of-chapter questions allow readers to better process, understand, and analyze what they have just read, while chapter introductions give the students a historical and philosophical context to what they are about to read.

Table of contents

Introduction

Differing Perspectives on What It Means to Be Educated

1  Socrates and Plato

2  Aristotle

3  John Locke

4  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5  Catharine Macaulay

6  Conflicting Educational Visions:The Puritans and Thomas Jefferson

7  Local vs. Centralized Control of Schooling

8  John Dewey

9  Traditional versus Progressive Education:The Great Debate

10  Education:  The Panacea for African-Americans

11  Maxine Greene

12  Jane Roland Martin

13  Paulo Freire

14  Nel Noddings

15  Philosophy for Children: Matthew Lipman, Gareth Matthews, and Kieran Egan

16  Parker J. Palmer

 

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