Philosophy Of Education, Theory, Common Sense And Research (continuum Studies In Education)

Philosophy of Education This page intentionally left blank PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION Aims, Theory, Common Sense and Research Richard Pring continuum LONDON • NEW YORK Continuum The Tower Building 11 York Road London, SE1 7NX 15 East 26th Street New York NY 10010 1st published 2004 This paperback edition published 2005 Richard Pring 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. ISBN 0 8264 7239 7 (hardback) 0 8264 8708 4 (paperback) Typeset by BookEns Ltd, Royston, Herts. Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Bath Contents Introduction Part I CHAPTER 1 1 Aims, Values and Standards Education as a moral practice 11 13th Lawrence Kohlberg Memorial Lecture, given at the 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Moral Education, University of Glasgow, July 2000. Published in Journal of Moral Education, 30 (2), (2001) 101-12 CHAPTER 2 Educating persons 26 Lecture given in the series Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal', University of Oxford, February 1996. Published in Pring, R. and Walford, G. (eds) Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal, London: Palmer, (1997) 83-96 CHAPTER 3 The aim of education: liberal or vocational? 42 The Victor Cook Memorial Lecture, given at the Universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen and Cambridge, 1993. Published in Haldane, J. (ed) Education, Values and the Human World, Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews, (1994) 1-18 CHAPTER 4 The context of education: monastery or marketplace? The Victor Cook Memorial Lecture, given at the Universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen and Cambridge, 1993. Published in Haldane, J. (ed) Education, Values and the Human 61 vi CONTENTS World, Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews, (1994), pp. 19-35, and in The Cambridge Review, 115, (232), (1994) 55-62 CHAPTER 5 Subject-centred versus child-centred education - a false dualism 80 Paper given at the Annual Conference of the Society for Applied Philosophy, May 1988. Published in Journal of Applied Philosophy, 6 (2), (1989) 181-94 CHAPTER 6 Standards and quality in education 99 Paper given at the Annual General Conference of the Standing Conference for the Study of Education. Published in British Journal of Educational Studies, 40 (1), (1992) 4-22 CHAPTER 7 Political education: relevance of the humanities 119 Published in Oxford Review of Education, 25, (1 & 2) (1999) 71-87 Part II Common Sense and Educational Theory CHAPTER 8 Common sense and education 145 Published in Proceedings of the