Philosophical foundation of education /
Howard Ozmon
- Columbus : Merill Publishing Company, c1990
- xx, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Idealism and education -- 2. Realism and education -- 3. Eastern philosophy and education -- 4. Pragmatism and education -- 5. Reconstructionism and education -- 6. Behaviorism and education -- 7. Existentialism, phenomenology, and education -- 8. Analytic philosophy and education -- 9. Marxism and education -- 10. Philosophy and the theory and practice of education.
It could be said that philosophy of education began when people first became conscious of education as a distinct human activity. While primitive societies did not have long-range goals and the complex insights we find in modern times, and while they did not have the analytical tools that modern philosophers have, even primitive education involved a philosophical attitude about life.