Better schools : a values perspective on education
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Better schools : a values perspective on education
Falmer Press, 1990
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The purpose of this book is to identify the goals of schooling and to suggest ways of achieving them. The author emphasizes the relationship between school and society and argues that reform of both is required in order to clarify the objectives of schooling and solve its practical problems.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Getting our bearings: the purpose of schooling
- what kind of school?
- students - meeting their needs
- teachers - what can and cannot be expected of them
- parental and societal rights. Part 2 Specific value issues: compulsion
- indoctrination
- religious bias
- racism
- ethnic bias
- sexism
- class bias. Part 3 New directions for schools: moral and values education
- religious and spiritual education
- political and global education.
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