Teaching for commitment : liberal education, indoctrination and Christian nurture /
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| Author / Creator: | Thiessen, Elmer John, 1942- |
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| Imprint: | Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152901 |
Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE CHARGE OF RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION
- Some Historical Observations and Examples
- Some Philosophical Observations and Examples
- Definition of Christian Nurture
- Approach to be Taken
- 2 LIBERAL EDUCATION: THE CONTEXT OF THE CHARGE OF INDOCTRINATION
- History of Liberal Education
- Peters's Concept of Liberal Education
- One Possible Reply to the Charge of Religious Indoctrination
- 3 CONTENT OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE SCIENTIFIC IDEAL
- Doctrines
- Doctrines, Religion, and Science
- Indoctrination and DoctrinesChristian Nurture, Indoctrination, and the Ideal of Normal Science
- 4 METHODS OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE IDEAL OF RATIONALITY
- Indoctrinatory Teaching Methods
- Unavoidability of Indoctrination
- Responses to the Unavoidability of Non-rational Teaching Methods
- Non-rational Teaching Methods Reconsidered
- Rationality
- Normal Rationality, Religion, and Christian Nurture
- 5 INTENTIONS OF THE INDOCTRINATOR AND THE IDEAL OF AUTONOMY
- The Enlightenment Ideal of Autonomy
- Autonomy and Christian Nurture
- Intentions
- Critique of Enlightenment Ideal of AutonomyJustification of Autonomy
- Christian Nurture and the Ideal of Autonomy
- Nurturing Normal Autonomy
- 6 CONSEQUENCES OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE IDEAL OF CRITICAL OPENNESS
- Meaning of Critical Openness
- Indoctrination and Consequences
- Critique of Enlightenment Ideal of Critical Openness
- Justification of Normal Critical Openness
- Christian Nurture and Normal Critical Openness
- 7 INSTITUTIONAL INDOCTRINATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL OF LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS
- Peshkin, Bethany Baptist Academy, and Total InstitutionsCritique of Peshkin's Total Institutions
- Liberal Institutions and State Public Schools
- Normal Liberal Institutions
- 8 RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION VS. LIBERAL EDUCATION: SOME CONCLUSIONS
- Replies to the Charge of Religious Indoctrination
- Toward a Reconstruction of the Ideal of Liberal Education
- Two Concepts or Phases of Liberal Education
- Toward a Reconstruction of a Theory of Indoctrination
- Conclusion
- 9 SOME PRACTICAL SUGESTIONS
- The Initiation/Socialization Phase/Component of Christian NurtureChristian Nurture in Relation to Rationality and Autonomy
- Toward Educational Pluralism
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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