What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It - A Philosophical Inquiry Into Self Development, Cultural Commitment,

This book brings the idea of a public-defined in part as the quality of communication among strangers-back into focus. The benefits of doing this are many, but perhaps the most important are to adjust our understanding of what is good teaching and to widen our understanding of what counts as central to the educational process.

List of contents

Introduction: A Public Education as Critical Aspirational Ideal
Chapter One: Education as Self-development
Chapter Two: Culture, Character and Education
Chapter Three: The Education of Cultural Strangers: The Idea of a Public Education
Chapter Four: Public Values and the Civic Good
Chapter Five: The Construction and Stabilization of Public Values
Chapter Six: From a Public Education to a Public School

About the author

By Walter Feinberg

Summary

This book brings the idea of a public-defined in part as the quality of communication among strangers-back into focus. The benefits of doing this are many, but perhaps the most important are to adjust our understanding of what is good teaching and to widen our understanding of what counts as central to the educational process.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Feinberg, Richards
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498517249
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1724-9
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Philosophy and Cultural Identity; Philosophy and Cultural Identi; Philosophy and Cultural Identity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works