The Philosophy of Open Education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 15)

Contents......Page 7
General editor’s note......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Part I Problems of definition......Page 14
1 What’s ‘open’ about open education?......Page 15
2 Open education: an expression in search\rof a definition......Page 23
3 Open education: open to what?......Page 30
4 Openness: the pedagogic atmosphere......Page 39
Part II Problems of knowledge......Page 57
5 That’s just Einstein’s opinion: the autocracy of students’ reason in open education......Page 58
6 Teaching as making sense of what is known......Page 71
Part III Problems of socialization......Page 79
7 Subjectivity and standards in the humanities......Page 80
8 Socialization, social models,\rand the open education\rmovement: some philosophical considerations......Page 94
9 Open education and social criticism......Page 121
10 Open education: an aspirin for the plague......Page 132
Part IV Problems of freedom......Page 143
11\rAutonomy and control: toward a theory of legitimate influenc e......Page 144
12\rFreedom and desire in the Summerhill philosophy of educatio n......Page 157
Index......Page 168