The Philosophy Of Open Education (international Library Of The Philosophy Of Education Volume 15)

INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPEN EDUCATION THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPEN EDUCATION Edited and with an introduction by DAVID NYBERG Volume 15 LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 1975 This edition first published in 2010 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1975 Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without 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€0-203-86109-4€Master e-book ISBN ISBN 10:0-415-55946-4 (Set) eISBN 10:0-2038-6097-7 (Set) ISBN 10:0-415-56358-5 (Volume 15) eISBN 10:0-203-86109-4 (Volume 15) ISBN 13:978-0-415-55946-1 (Set) eISBN 13:978-0-2038-6097-7 (Set) ISBN 13:978-0-415-56358-1 (Volume 15) eISBN 13:978-0-203-86109-7 (Volume 15) Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace. The philosophy of open education Edited and with an introduction by David Nyberg Routledge & Kegan Paul London and Boston First published in 1975 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Broadway House, 68–74 Carter Lane, London EC4V 5EL and 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. The Gresham Press Old Woking, Surrey A member of the Staples Printing Group Copyright Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1975 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism ISBN€0-203-86109-4€Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0 7100 8285 1 (Print Edition) Contents € viii € x € xi € € Part I Problems of definition € € 2 € 10 € 17 € 26 € Part II Problems of knowledge € € € 45 € 58 € Part III Problems of socialization € € 67 Contents vii € € 81 € €108 € €119 € Part IV Problems of freedom € 11 Autonomy and control: toward a theory of legitimate influence 131 12 Freedom and desire in the Summerhill philosophy of education 144 € € € 155 General editor’s note There is a growing interest in philosophy of education amongst students of philosophy as well as amongst those who are more specifically and practically concerned with educational problems. Philosophers, of course, from the time of Plato onwards, have taken an interest in education and have dealt with education in the context of wider concerns about knowledge and the good life. But it is only quite recently in this country that philosophy of education has come to be conceived of as a specific branch of philosophy like the philos