ABSTRACT
The main concern of the volume is the relation of theory to practice in education but the book also reviews the state of educational theory, and its relation to politics. Beginning with a group of papers on specific areas of the relation between theory and practice, the book goes on to discuss aspects of the curriculum, such as curricular principles in recent official reports, the newly emerging theme of general abilities, and controversial material in the curriculum. The theme of the third group of articles is personal autonomy, one of the very few generally supported educational aims of recent years, and a final group presents a retrospective view of the Plowden Report.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part |56 pages
Theory and Practice
chapter 1|19 pages
Theory and Practice in Education
chapter 2|15 pages
Philosophy of Education 1952–1982
chapter 3|8 pages
The Idea of a Unified Science of Education
chapter 4|12 pages
Education and Politics
part two|37 pages
Aspects Of The Curriculum
chapter 5|11 pages
Balance and Coherence: Some Curricular Principles in Recent Reports
chapter 6|14 pages
What is General About General Education?
chapter 7|10 pages
Controversial Issues and The Curriculum
part three|54 pages
Autonomy and Learning
chapter 8|13 pages
Education and the Ethics of Belief
chapter 9|13 pages
Autonomy and Intellectual Education
chapter 10|15 pages
The Assessment of Learning
chapter 11|11 pages
Behaviour Modification: Towards an Ethical Appraisal
part four|18 pages
Primary Education - Plowden and After