Education, knowledge, and truth : beyond the postmodern impasse /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. |
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| Description: | xiii, 248 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ; 4 Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education 4. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3611775 |
Table of Contents:
- Notes on contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: The post-war rise and fall of educational epistemology
- Part I. Knowledge in general
- 1. Knowledge, truth and education
- 2. Interpretation, construction and the 'postmodern' ethos
- Part II. Knowledge in particular
- 3. Science education after postmodernism
- 4. Truth in religion: Wittgensteinian considerations
- 5. Truth, arts education and the 'postmodern condition'
- 6. Fictional truth
- 7. Moral education and the objectivity of values
- 8. Virtues and human flourishing: a teleological justification
- Part III. The wider socio-political context
- 9. The politics of difference and common education
- 10. Epistemology, politics and curriculum construction
- 11. Feminism, epistemology and education
- Part IV. Knowledge and learning
- 12. Learning as invention: education and constructivism
- 13. Education, knowledge and critical thinking
- 14. Assessment and the challenge of scepticism
- Postscript
- Index