In Defence of the Human in Education
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- Nombre de pages260
- ISBN978-3-631-63349-6
- EAN9783631633496
- Date de parution01/05/2012
- CollectionEuropäische Hochschulschriften
- ÉditeurPeter Lang
Résumé
The title incorporates the assumption that the ‘human' in education is being threatened by certain processes. The guiding questions are : What are these processes and what constitutes the ‘human' in education ? Which activities characteristically performed by human beings are so central that they seem definitive of a life that is truly human and which changes or transitions in educational thinking are compatible with the continued existence of a being as a member of human kind and which are not ? It is argued that the present debate on education is still dominated by the language of performance and global economic comparison.
Educational practice must and will have to help the individual through a confluence of insights in his/her journey through life to form independent judgement.
Educational practice must and will have to help the individual through a confluence of insights in his/her journey through life to form independent judgement.
The title incorporates the assumption that the ‘human' in education is being threatened by certain processes. The guiding questions are : What are these processes and what constitutes the ‘human' in education ? Which activities characteristically performed by human beings are so central that they seem definitive of a life that is truly human and which changes or transitions in educational thinking are compatible with the continued existence of a being as a member of human kind and which are not ? It is argued that the present debate on education is still dominated by the language of performance and global economic comparison.
Educational practice must and will have to help the individual through a confluence of insights in his/her journey through life to form independent judgement.
Educational practice must and will have to help the individual through a confluence of insights in his/her journey through life to form independent judgement.