ESH302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peer Pressure, John Stuart Mill, Existentialism
11 Oct 2018
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Week 2- the aims and purpose of education 1 (liber. --consider arguments for the "liberal" view of education. "maximally to contribute to the "education" of all students for whose learning they are responsible (to the extent possible by reference to relevant constraits- esp. temporal). --marples outlines the "liberal" view of education (under the heading. --liberal: education is all about completing us as humans and giving us the power to recognise options and decide between them. --vocational: that"s all well and good but education is about getting children job ready. --both have in common is that they both want humans to succeed, to have wellbeing. --knowledge valuable for its own sake (the humanising function of education; humans as learning begins*). --core values of liberal civilisation: democracy, the rule of law, individual rights. --freedom as a basic human value (to be promoted by education)
