Philosophical foundation of education / Howard Ozmon

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbus : Merill Publishing Company, c1990Description: xx, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 675211336
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LA 96 .O9 1990
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Gen. Ed - CEAS GC LA 96 .O9 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000010956

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.

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