Philosophy and the aims of higher education

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ID5154941
AutoresJohn White (0000-0002-5684-1461, University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen22
Número1
Páginas7-17
Fecha de publicación1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075079712331381101
OpenAlexW1964696933
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas11

The paper asks how far philosophy can throw light on what the aims of higher education should be. It begins with a critical discussion of Ronald Barnett's argument, set out in his The Idea of Higher Education and elsewhere, that there are common ‘emancipatory’ aims implicit in the concept of higher education itself. Barnett's philosophical and historical arguments for this conclusion are examined and rejected. The question is also raised whether the conclusion could be supported on other grounds. In the last part of the paper it is suggested that higher education seems to offer much less scope than compulsory school education for philosophical discussions of its aims

Epistemology · Higher education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications

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