Ethics and Educational Policy (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 21)

Contents......Page 7
General editor’s note......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
part I Liberality and the university......Page 13
1 Ambiguities in liberal education and the problem of its content......Page 14
2 Liberality, neutrality and the modern university......Page 27
3 Student academic freedom and the changing student/university relationships......Page 37
part II Students’ rights......Page 53
4 From childhood to adulthood: assigning rights and responsibilities......Page 54
5 Compulsory education: a moral critique......Page 66
part III Autonomy, freedom and schooling......Page 83
6 Autonomy as an aim of education......Page 84
7 Ambiguity and constraint in the ‘freedom’ of free schools......Page 100
part IV Equality and pluralism......Page 113
8 Cultural diversity and education......Page 114
9 Equality of educational opportunity......Page 129
part V Technology and work......Page 145
10 Technology and educational values......Page 146
11 Career education and the pathologies of work......Page 158
Index......Page 167