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Journal of the Philosophy of Education
The Idea of a Universal Theory of Education-an Impossible but Necessary Project?2002 •
The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Education As Universal Tendency Of The PresentAll human societies, past and present, have had a vested interest in education; and some wits have claimed that teaching (at its best an educational activity) is the second oldest profession. While not all societies channel sufficient resources into support for educational activities and institutions, all at the very least acknowledge their centrality— and for good reasons. For one thing, it is obvious that children are born illiterate and innumerate, and ignorant of the norms and cultural achievements of the community or society into which they have been thrust; but with the help of professional teachers and the dedicated amateurs in their families and immediate environs (and with the aid, too, of educational resources made available through the media and nowadays the internet), within a few years they can read, write, calculate, and act (at least often) in culturally-appropriate ways. Some learn these skills with more facility than others, and so education also serves as a social-sorting mechanism and undoubtedly has enormous impact on the economic fate of the individual. Put more abstractly, at its best education equips individuals with the skills and substantive knowledge that allows them to define and to pursue their own goals, and also allows them to participate in the life of their community as full-fledged, autonomous citizens. But this is to cast matters in very individualistic terms, and it is fruitful also to take a societal perspective, where the picture changes somewhat. It emerges that in pluralistic societies such as the Western democracies there are some groups that do not wholeheartedly support the development of autonomous individuals, for such folk can weaken a group from within by thinking for themselves and challenging communal norms and beliefs; from the point of view of groups whose survival is thus threatened, formal, state-provided education is not necessarily a good thing. But in other ways even these groups depend for their continuing survival on educational processes, as do the larger societies and nation-states of which they are part; for as John Dewey put it in the opening chapter of his classic work Democracy and Education (1916), in its broadest sense education is the means of the " social continuity of life " (Dewey 1916, 3). Dewey pointed out that the " primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group " make education a necessity, for despite this biological inevitability " the life of the group goes on " (Dewey, 3). The great social importance of education is underscored, too, by the fact that when a society is shaken by a crisis, this often is taken as a sign of educational breakdown; education, and educators, become scapegoats.
Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies
Education as the Power of Independent Thought [review of Chris Shute, <i>Bertrand Russell: "Education as the Power of Independent Thought"</i>]2003 •
2003 •
1985 •
S ............................................................................................................... 12 Keynote Presentations ........................................................................................................................... 12 Thematic Section 1: Comparative and International Education & History of Education ............................... 13 Thematic Section 2: Teacher Education .................................................................................................. 15 Thematic Section 3: Education Policy, Reforms & School Leadership ........................................................ 17 Thematic Section 4: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning & Social Inclusion .............................................. 19 Thematic Section 5: Law and Education ................................................................................................. 20 Thematic Section 6: Research Education & Research Practice ...........................
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