Professor Alan Ryan, a governor at Oxford High School, puts forward a radical argument about the real purpose and importance of education and why everybody needs to think about it.'
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Alan Ryan has written an instructive collection of essays on the state of contemporary education. As a professor of politics and history who has taught in the United States and his native England, Ryan possesses both firsthand experience as an educator and broad familiarity with the history of educational literature. This makes him an intriguing guide through the vexing topics that collectively form the "crisis" that has faced education ever since Socrates and the Sophists tangled over what education entailed several millennia ago. As a historian, Ryan can assure his readers that our contemporary concerns over the content and purpose of liberal education are not new ones. His focus is largely on 19th- and early 20th-century educational history and the development of the modern university--what is now called "post-secondary education." Ryan is particularly adept at drawing out the interplay of liberal political desires that have shaped these institutions and the reformist educational agendas of thinkers such as John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, and Bertrand Russell. The result is an improved sense of historical continuity to the seeming drift of contemporary approaches to educational reform. But it is Ryan's own experience as a practitioner of the subject that he studies that gives verve to these three essays, and it is his insight as a teacher, rather than the subtlety of his theses, that offers greater instruction. --Joshua Petersen
Ryan (John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, Norton, 1997) presents a scholarly work focusing on liberal education and its history, relationship to society, and relevance today. Stressing that the American education system needs revision, Ryan takes note of current practices relating to multiculturalism. He acknowledges society's role in educating children, relieving teachers of much of the blame thrown at them. Ryan quotes often from John Dewey and emphasizes that those who are more liberally educated will be better able to deal with the changing world, where different cultures are meshing and evolving. "Any student decently taught and allowed to look at the world will be curious about what happens beyond his or her front door," he states, adding that those who are more liberally educated are "more inclined than most to see differences of language and geography as something to be overcome rather than to be taken as setting the boundaries of comprehension and enjoyment." Ryan's arguments are detailed but might have been better presented. This scholarly work, written for education professionals, is best suited for academic libraries.?Terry A. Christner, Hutchinson P.L., KS
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