Education in a Post-Metaphysical World: Rethinking Educational Policy and Practice Through Jurgen Habermas' Discourse Morality

Christopher Martin

ISBN 10: 082643360X / ISBN 13: 9780826433602

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Education in a Post-Metaphysical World: Rethinking Educational Policy and Practice Through Jurgen Habermas' Discourse Morality
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082643360X
• ISBN 13: 9780826433602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

What does it mean to say that a person has beeneducated? This question forms the basis of global education policy debates;from the way governments establish funding for national school systems, to theway children are treated in the classroom. Should there be a common ethical core to suchpolices? What kind of educational process should aboriginal groups in Labrador,Canada, have a moral right to, and should this process be different from whatchildren in New York's boroughs have claim to? Should a school-basedcurriculum, such as the UK's National Curriculum, make well-being a centralconcern or are there other ethical dimensions to be addressed? Christopher Martin explores these questions andargues that the best way to consider them is to view education as a matter ofpublic moral understanding. He brings together traditions of thought central tophilosophy of education, such as R.S. Peters, and connects this tradition tothe moral philosophy and critical theory of Jurgen Habermas, whose theory ofDiscourse Morality has previously been given little attention in educationcircles.

About the Author

Christopher Martin is Visiting Fellow at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is also a consultant on education reform programmes for the Ministry of Education, Mexico, and Associate Fellow of the Virtual University of Guadalajara, Mexico.