In this controversial and challenging book, first published in 1981, the author calls for a restoration of the humanistic literary and historical balance in our educational thinking. He argues that the philosophy of education, seeking to emulate the precisions of science, concerns itself more with the analysis of words than with the real problems encountered in the educational world. Social science itself, he argues, would benefit by the promptings of literary insights. These essays constitute a systematic indictment of the narrowness of contemporary thinking about education, and will be of interest to students of education, philosophy and sociology.
- ISBN10 0710007469
- ISBN13 9780710007469
- Publish Date 18 June 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 April 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 156
- Language English