Education, knowledge, and truth: beyond the postmodern impasse
by Carr, David
In the 1960s educational philosophers showed enormous interest in the nature of knowledge and the curriculum. This work responds to the need to reinstate conceptual problems of truth, knowledge and the curriculum on the agenda for debate.
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- Full title :Education, knowledge, and truth : beyond the postmodern impasse / edited by David Carr.
Summary
In the 1960s educational philosophers showed enormous interest in the nature of knowledge and the curriculum. This work responds to the need to reinstate conceptual problems of truth, knowledge and the curriculum on the agenda for debate.
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- Publication Date:1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0203299124, 9780203299128
- oclc:ocm51051635
- LC Classification:LB14.7
- Dewey Decimal:370/.1
Table of Contents
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: The post-war rise and fall of educational epistemology; Knowledge in general; Knowledge, truth and education; Interpretation, construction and the 'postmodern' ethos; Knowledge in particular; Science education after postmodernism; Truth in religion: Wittgensteinian considerations; Truth, arts education and the 'postmodern condition'; Fictional truth; Moral education and the objectivity of values; Virtues and human flourishing: a teleological justification; The wider socio-political context.
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