The custody and courtship of experience : Western education in philosophical perspective / Padraig Hogan.
By: Hogan, Pádraig
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BookSeries: Maynooth bicentenary series.Publisher: Blackrock, Co. Dublin : Columba Press, 1995Description: 272 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1856071537 .Subject(s): Education -- Philosophy -- HistoryDDC classification: 370.9 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 370.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00009752 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Throughout most of the history of Western civilization, Christianity and Classical ideals played a dominant part in education. In most western countries, however, this is no longer the case. In modern pluralist Democracies, church influence struggles with pervasive influences from elsewhere for the hearts and minds of the public. Educational policy remains, however, an instrument to be used by major power groups, and in many countries has become, to a greater or lesser extent, an active or unwitting accomplice in furthering acquisitiveness and the accumulation of material advantage.
Bibliography: (pages 256-263) and index.
Introduction -- Part one: Education as guardianship - a story of ascendancy and decline -- The classical pattern of western education -- Christendom and the custodianship of learning -- From good letters to modernity -- Modernity's combative progeny -- Part two: Educational experience and the sovereignty of learning -- Power, partiality and the purposes of learning -- Personal identity: Imposition, creation or epiphany? -- The courtship of sensibility -- Part three: The integrity of education amid the currents of public discourse -- The claims of radical critique -- 'Post-modern' playfulness -- Educational policy and the quality of learning.