Abstract

In this book, the author attempts to examine critically a number of basic concepts, assumptions, and arguments in the theory and practice of education. It focuses on education as a systematic introduction to the major modes of rational understanding. The ten chapters are organized in five sections: the study of education; the nature of education. Among the topics discussed are criteria of quality in education, autonomy, integrated studies, the place of moral education, the school and social reform. Introduction: The philosopher and the diversity of educational issues, by P J Sheehan.