Defending the Value of Education as a Public Good: Philosophical Dialogues on Education and the State

Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing the state’s role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus.

Chapters present in-depth philosophical and historical arguments that explore core aspects of education that are frequently overlooked, illustrating education’s role as a non-partisan public good during contentious times. Through this volume, diverse voices are heard from those with experience of life under communism as well as life in a stable democracy arguing, for example, that despite differing contexts, the value of education is autonomous and intrinsic. Ultimately drawing on conceptual frameworks, this timely volume reconciles the Anglo-American Continental dialogues on education and presents novel and challenging ideas to its readers.

Striving to inspire new research through its various reflections on the relationship between education and the state, the book will be useful to scholars, researchers, and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, education policy, sociology of education as well as theory of education.

The Introduction as well as Chapters 3, 5, 6 and 7 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 license.

Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Defending the Value of Education as a Public Good: Philosophical Dialogues on Education and the State

Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing the state’s role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus.

Chapters present in-depth philosophical and historical arguments that explore core aspects of education that are frequently overlooked, illustrating education’s role as a non-partisan public good during contentious times. Through this volume, diverse voices are heard from those with experience of life under communism as well as life in a stable democracy arguing, for example, that despite differing contexts, the value of education is autonomous and intrinsic. Ultimately drawing on conceptual frameworks, this timely volume reconciles the Anglo-American Continental dialogues on education and presents novel and challenging ideas to its readers.

Striving to inspire new research through its various reflections on the relationship between education and the state, the book will be useful to scholars, researchers, and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, education policy, sociology of education as well as theory of education.

The Introduction as well as Chapters 3, 5, 6 and 7 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 license.

Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing the state’s role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus.

Chapters present in-depth philosophical and historical arguments that explore core aspects of education that are frequently overlooked, illustrating education’s role as a non-partisan public good during contentious times. Through this volume, diverse voices are heard from those with experience of life under communism as well as life in a stable democracy arguing, for example, that despite differing contexts, the value of education is autonomous and intrinsic. Ultimately drawing on conceptual frameworks, this timely volume reconciles the Anglo-American Continental dialogues on education and presents novel and challenging ideas to its readers.

Striving to inspire new research through its various reflections on the relationship between education and the state, the book will be useful to scholars, researchers, and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, education policy, sociology of education as well as theory of education.

The Introduction as well as Chapters 3, 5, 6 and 7 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 license.

Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781003853893
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/20/2024
Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 238
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Katarzyna Wrońska is Associate Professor in Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Education, Poland.

Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Education and the State - Between Past and Future

Part I: Education and the state

Chapter 1. Uncovering education as a practice in its own right

Chapter 2. An optimistic anarchist’s guide to education and the state

Chapter 3. Education, ideology and critical thinking

Chapter 4. Educational dimension of acts of political forgiveness

Part II: Balancing the purposes of schooling

Chapter 5. Becoming, knowing, and governing oneself in Erasmus’s educational theory and practice

Chapter 6. Competition in education from the perspective of liberalism and liberal education

Chapter 7. Education and democracy nexus: Social media as a ‘space’ of formation of a sense of responsibility for oneself and for others among young people

Chapter 8. Mind-shift for 21st-Century Education: Entrepreneurism

Part III: The Future of education

Chapter 9. Pedagogy, learning and becoming oneself

Chapter 10. The eclipse of the liberal-democratic state and the future of education

Chapter 11. Reforming the university: considering Niklas Luhmann's remarks

Chapter 12. Doctoral education, the state, and public goods in a changing world

Conclusion

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