Values, Education and the Human World
1st Edition
Published on 4. October 2011
279 pages
978-1-84540-264-8 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this book consist of revised versions of Victor Cook Memorial Lectures delivered in the universities of St. Andrews, London, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford, Glasgow and Leeds.
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John Haldane
Values, Education and the Human World
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Notes on the Contributers
- Introduction
- Values and Values Education
- The Nature of Values
- Problems of Values Education
- Culture
- A Cultural Crisis: The Devaluation of Values
- A Revaluation of Values: Keeping Politics in its Place
- Education, Value and the Sense of Awe
- The Pursuit of Excellence
- The State
- The Aim of Education
- The Context of Education
- Meeting Educational Needs
- Good Teaching
- Religion
- Political Society, Civil Society
- Language of Morals
- Values, Religion and Education: Diagnosis
- Values, Religion and Education: Prognosis? Cure?
- Science
- Science and Poetry
- Atoms, Memes and Individuals
- The Threat of Scientism
- The New Marx
- Back Matter
- References
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