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Philosophy of education has an honored place in the history of Western philosophical thought. Its questions are as vital now, both philosophically and practically, as they have ever been. In recent decades, however, philosophical thinking about education has largely fallen off the philosophical radar screen. Philosophy of education has lost intimate contact with the parent discipline to a regrettably large extent--to the detriment of both.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education is intended to serve as a general introduction to key issues in the field, to further the philosophical pursuit of those issues, and to bring philosophy of education back into closer contact with general philosophy. Distinguished philosophers and philosophers of education, most of whom have made important contributions to core areas of philosophy, turn their attention in these 28 essays to a broad range of philosophical questions concerning education. The chapters are accessible to readers with no prior exposure to philosophy of education, and provide both surveys of the general domain they address, and advance the discussion in those domains in original and fruitful ways. Together their authors constitute a new wave of general philosophers taking up fundamental philosophical questions about education--the first such cohort of outstanding general philosophers to do so (in English) in a generation.

Features

• Prominence and distinction, within philosophy, of contributing authors.
• Broad coverage of central topics within philosophy of education, with unusual emphasis on broadly epistemological topics. (Most competitor volumes emphasize history of philosophy of education or ethics/social-political topics more, and epistemological topics less, than this one.)
• Essays don't just survey their domains, but offer positive and original - and sometimes controversial - solutions to outstanding problems.
• Essays place educational questions squarely within the context of general philosophy, and bring the two into close contact.

Product Details

564 pages; 6.69 x 9.61; ISBN13: 978-0-19-991572-9ISBN10: 0-19-991572-5

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