Building a philosophy of education
"A basic text that provides the student with a stimulating educational philosophy discussion. It will help the student, as a future educator, to understand, formulate, and articulate the major issues in education. It is a positive, constructive and thoughtful examination of the problems of education and of the merits, weakness, and implications of the various approaches to solving these problems. Its aim is to introduce the reader to the process of thinking philosophically about educational problems, not to impose a philosophy of education on him. Dr. Broudy does, however, state and argue for a solution to each of the problems raised. The problems which he treats are both the general ones, such as the aims of education and their relation to society, and the specific ones, such as curriculum, organization, and methods: and the values against which he measures the possible solutions to these problems are not only the intellectual, moral, and social values, but the religious and esthetic ones as well. the first edition anticipated many of the new problems and demands upon the American school system that have evolved since Sputnik. However, considerable attention was devoted to interpreting the evidence from recent research on cognition and teaching in relation to Dr. Broudy's original approach to these problems, especially that of curriculum design. A major change was made in the grouping of the material into three parts-(1) Man, Society and the School (2) Values in the Educational Enterprise and (3) The Good Life and the School. The chapters on values have been moved ahead of those on curriculum, method, and organization." Publisher
Print Book, English, 1961
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1961