(article ) What is Education?

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What is education? Chapter 1

Chapter 1: What is education?

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Part 1: What is Education? Chapter 1 . Introduction: What is education? This chapter explains the difference between education and schooling. It proposes that the purpose of education to to enable learners to develop their own good life, which inevitably has much to do with defining a good society. Anything less than giving priority to […]

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Part 1: What is Education? Chapter 1 . Introduction: What is education? This chapter explains the difference between education and schooling. It proposes that the purpose of education to to enable learners to develop their own good life, which inevitably has much to do with defining a good society. Anything less than giving priority to

Chapter 2: Our store of educational ideas

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    Vocational training has competed with education, right from the origins of education itself. Jobs should be subordinate to questions of living well. But vocational preparation so often wins out over what we need in order to achieve a good life. The only way that education can compete with vocational training is for us

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    Vocational training has competed with education, right from the origins of education itself. Jobs should be subordinate to questions of living well. But vocational preparation so often wins out over what we need in order to achieve a good life. The only way that education can compete with vocational training is for us

Chapter 3: The anatomy of respect

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Chapter 3:The anatomy of respect The justifications that are offered for education are invariably too vague to stand as decision-making principles – or to hold individuals and institutions accountable. Expanding on the idea that education needs to be justified by the worth of the person forces us to remarkable conclusions This chapter explains the structure

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Chapter 3:The anatomy of respect The justifications that are offered for education are invariably too vague to stand as decision-making principles – or to hold individuals and institutions accountable. Expanding on the idea that education needs to be justified by the worth of the person forces us to remarkable conclusions This chapter explains the structure

The practice of self-respect

Chapter 4: The practice of self-respect

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Chapter 4: The practice of self-respect Our respect for ourselves needs to be expressed in our action – towards developing and living good lives. This is a difficult undertaking, and to do it, there is much to learn. This chapter on respect is concerned with how to respect ourselves through learning and growing, including the

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Chapter 4: The practice of self-respect Our respect for ourselves needs to be expressed in our action – towards developing and living good lives. This is a difficult undertaking, and to do it, there is much to learn. This chapter on respect is concerned with how to respect ourselves through learning and growing, including the

Chapter 5: The Love model

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Chapter 5: The “love” model Here is the “love” model; a way of thinking about ethical agreements. The model changes the usual assumptions of self-interest that lie behind negotiation and compromise, enabling an almost unlimited incorporation of interests. The “love model” is an alternative description of the “Golden Rule”, and we can use these to

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Chapter 5: The “love” model Here is the “love” model; a way of thinking about ethical agreements. The model changes the usual assumptions of self-interest that lie behind negotiation and compromise, enabling an almost unlimited incorporation of interests. The “love model” is an alternative description of the “Golden Rule”, and we can use these to