The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education. Walter A. Strauss Lectures in the Humanities

Autor/in	Kitcher, Philip
Titel	The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education. Walter A. Strauss Lectures in the Humanities
Quelle	(2021), (440 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-19-092897-1
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Educational Quality; Educational Objectives; Social Change; Career Development; Citizen Participation; Democracy; Educational Theories; Theory Practice Relationship; 21st Century Skills; Humanism; Sustainability; Role of Religion; Moral Development; Art Education; Natural Sciences; Role of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Sozialer Wandel; Berufsentwicklung; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Demokratie; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Humanismus; Nachhaltigkeit; Moralische Entwicklung; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Naturwissenschaften; Bildungsauftrag
Abstract	Philip Kitcher's "The Main Enterprise of the World" offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality education available to all, and argues that these reforms are economically sustainable. Kitcher build his arguments from three broad goals of education as an institution: career development and professionalization, civic participation, and human fulfilment. He shows that shifts in the workplace provide opportunities to focus on the latter two goals, and to liberate education from supposed economic constraints. By tying education to the strengthening of both individual lives and the foundations of democracy, he offers a humanistic rethinking of what education should try to achieve. Drawing on figures like Dewey, Mill, Atkinson, and others who have written deeply on education, both in theory and in practice, Kitcher offers an extensive reconsideration of how we might change our educational institutions to respond not just to the twenty-first century economy, but to the deeper need for lifelong human flourishing. "The Main Enterprise of the World" renews classical Pragmatism: with one eye on the ideal, and the other on the world, it presents a picture of education appropriate for our century. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01