Philosophy of Education - 9780813343235

Noddings (education emerita, Stanford U.) has added review questions and literature guides for each chapter and a new chapter on school reform to this edition to complement her treatment of the philosophy behind teaching, learning, research and educational policy. In these 11 chapters she introduces students to the philosophy of education of Socrates and Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Herbart and Froebel and details the philosophical and educational thought of John Dewey, from his ideas on the meaning and ends of education to his theory of knowledge and responses by modern critics. She covers analytic and continental philosophy in relation to education, logic and critical thinking, epistemology, the philosophies of social science as they relate to educational research, ideas on ethics and moral education, including those of utilitarianism and the Enlightenment, current debates in social and political philosophy, and the impact of feminism. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)