This book explores how contemporary educational research and curriculum occlude the vital and enduring relationship between education and well-being. Beginning with the consequences of the reductive tendencies of educational research and moving through the consequences of the technical and instrumental tendencies of curriculum, this book challenges how contemporary education as a whole reduces human beings to "things" and funnels and stamps them according to predetermined knowledge forms representative of the dominant socioeconomic ideology. Through a philosophical exploration of original conceptions of education and well-being, this book attempts to recover an understanding of education that embodies how we learn to uncover and relate to our own possibilities for a more meaningful life which is a life of well-being.
- ISBN10 1349933244
- ISBN13 9781349933242
- Publish Date 24 August 2016 (first published 3 August 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2016 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 129
- Language English