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CHILDHOOD AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
AN ANTI-ARISTOTELIAN PERSPECTIVE |
| By: |
Andrew Stables |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£24.16 |
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| ISBN 10: |
144119018X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441190185 |
| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
7 April, 2011 |
| Series: |
Continuum Studies in Educational Research |
| Description: |
Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. This title examines the idea that compulsory education is a social good, and that adulthood and childhood should be considered as entirely separate realms. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a critical examination of the idea that compulsory education is a social good, and that adulthood and childhood should be considered as entirely separate realms. Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children (like women, animals, slaves, and the mob) as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. Despite much rhetoric concerning either the sinfulness or purity of children (as in Puritanism and Romanticism respectively), the assumption that children are marginal has endured. Modern theories, including recent interpretations of neuroscience, have re-enforced this sense of children's incompleteness. This fascinating monograph seeks to overturn this philosophical tradition. It develops instead a 'fully semiotic' perspective, arguing that in so far as children are no more or less interpreters of the world than adults, they are no more or less reasoning agents. This, the book shows, has radical implications, particularly for the question of how we seek to educate children.One Aristotelian legacy is the unquestioned belief that societies must educate the young irrespective of the latter's wishes. Another is that childhood must be grown out of and left behind. "Continuum Studies in Educational Research (CSER)" is a major new series in the field of educational research. Written by experts and scholars for experts and scholars, this ground-breaking series focuses on research in the areas of comparative education, history, lifelong learning, philosophy, policy, post-compulsory education, psychology and sociology. Based on cutting edge research and written with lucidity and passion, the "CSER" series showcases only those books that really matter in education - studies that are major, that will be remembered for having made a difference. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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