Defending the Value of Education as a Public Good
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Philosophical Dialogues on Education and the State

Contributor(s)
Wrońska, Katarzyna (editor)
Stern, Julian (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing the state’s role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus.
Chapters present in-depth philosophical and historical arguments that explore core aspects of education that are frequently overlooked, illustrating education’s role as a non-partisan public good during contentious times. Through this volume, diverse voices are heard from those with experience of life under communism as well as life in a stable democracy arguing, for example, that despite differing contexts, the value of education is autonomous and intrinsic. Ultimately drawing on conceptual frameworks, this timely volume reconciles the Anglo-American Continental dialogues on education and presents novel and challenging ideas to its readers.
Striving to inspire new research through its various reflections on the relationship between education and the state, the book will be useful to scholars, researchers, and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, education policy, sociology of education as well as theory of education.
The Introduction as well as Chapters 3, 5, 6 and 7 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at ""http://www.taylorfrancis.com"" http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 license.
Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at ""http://www.taylorfrancis.com"" http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Keywords
Education,Humanity,Freedom,Citizenship,intrinsic value and internal goods of education,teaching and learning,Niklas Luhmann,knowledge,philosophy of education,Erasmus,pedagogy,the state,ideology,reform,university reform,democracy,political forgiveness,school,university,competition,entrepreneurship,Liberal-Democratic State,responsibilityDOI
10.4324/9781003386100ISBN
9781003386100, 9781032471693, 9781032478142Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2024Imprint
RoutledgeSeries
Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education,Classification
Education
Educational strategies and policy
Philosophy and theory of education
Chapters in this book
- Chapter Introduction
- Chapter 3 Education, Ideology, and Critical Thinking
- Chapter 5 Becoming, Knowing, and Governing Oneself in Erasmian Educational Theory and Practice
- Chapter 6 Competition in Education from the Perspective of Liberalism and Liberal Education
- Chapter 7 Education and Democracy Nexus