Basic Approach/Summary
For preservice and inservice teachers studying the historical and philosophical foundations of education.
An anthology of primary sources that explores the philosophy of teaching and learning through a wide variety of viewpoints throughout history.
The introduction to the fourth edition of Philosophical Documents in Education asks the simple question, what does it mean to be educated? That simple but profound inquiry is answered throughout the anthology’s 16 chapters by both classical and contemporary educators, progressives, and philosophers. Driven by the idea that students can better understand and practice their profession by reading, contemplating, and discussing philosophical and historical literature, this collection of primary sources exposes readers to a wealth of ideas regarding teaching, learning, schooling, and instruction — from ancient texts to modern selections.
Features + Benefits
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.
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
For preservice and inservice teachers studying the historical and philosophical foundations of education.
An anthology of primary sources that explores the philosophy of teaching and learning through a wide variety of viewpoints throughout history.
The introduction to the fourth edition of Philosophical Documents in Education asks the simple question, what does it mean to be educated? That simple but profound inquiry is answered throughout the anthology’s 16 chapters by both classical and contemporary educators, progressives, and philosophers. Driven by the idea that students can better understand and practice their profession by reading, contemplating, and discussing philosophical and historical literature, this collection of primary sources exposes readers to a wealth of ideas regarding teaching, learning, schooling, and instruction — from ancient texts to modern selections.
Features + Benefits
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.
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