Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: r s peters

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  • R. S. PETERS ON EDUCATION AND ETHICS
    R.S. PETERS
    R. S. Peters on Education and Ethics reissues seven titles from Peters' life's work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the books are concerned with the philosophy of education and ethics. Topics include moral education and learning, authority and responsibility, psychology and ethical development and ideas on motivation amongst others. The books discuss more traditional the...

    $12,000.00

  • ESSAYS ON EDUCATORS (REV) RPD
    R. S. PETERS
    First published in 1981, Essays on Educators is a collection of essays on a variety of themes relating to Great Educators. The book is not only an exposition of the thought of these educators but a collection of critical essays in which their writings are used selectively to raise problems of permanent educational interest and importance. The first part explores the education o...

    $1,240.00

  • REASON AND COMPASSION (REV) RPD
    R. S. PETERS
    First published in 1973, Reason and Compassion showcases a collection of lectures by Professor Richard S. Peters concerned primarily with the moral position, based on compassion and on the use of reason, which is critical to code-encased moralities. He reacts to the idea that whilst many people are sympathetic towards protests against an established moral code, they are relucta...

    $1,240.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY AND ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    R. S. PETERS
    First published in 1974, this book presents a coherent collection of major articles by Richard Stanley Peters. It displays his work on psychology and philosophy, with special attention given to the areas of ethical development and human understanding. The book is split into four parts. The first combines a critique of psychological theories, especially those of Freud, Piaget an...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ROLE OF THE HEAD (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    R. S. PETERS
    First published in 1967, this book looks at what the role of a headteacher should be, challenging the traditional views of the head and the authoritarian structure of schools. Contributors explore new concepts of the head’s role in school and authors include both theorists and headteachers coming from various backgrounds including those that are historical, philosophical, socio...

    $1,240.00

  • AUTHORITY, RESPONSIBILITY AND EDUCATION
    R. S. PETERS
    First published in 1959, Authority, Responsibility and Education focuses on the philosophy of education and is concerned with the question of moral education. It was originally based on talks delivered mainly on the Home Service and Third Programme of the BBC between April 1956 and January 1959 but, due to its wide appeal and popularity, it was revised to include work from a fu...

    $1,240.00

  • ETHICS AND EDUCATION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    R. S. PETERS
    First published in 1966, this book was written to serve as an introductory textbook in the philosophy of education, focusing on ethics and social philosophy. It presents a distinctive point of view both about education and ethical theory and arrived at a time when education was a matter of great public concern. It looks at questions such as ‘What do we actually mean by educatio...

    $1,240.00

  • THE CONCEPT OF MOTIVATION
    R. S. PETERS
    First published in 1958 with a second edition in 1969, The Concept of Motivation looks philosophically and psychologically at the idea of motivation in order to explain human behaviour. Chapters cover types of explanation in psychological theories, motives and motivations, a look at Freud’s theory, drive theories, and regression to hedonism. Despite its original publication dat...

    $1,240.00

  • MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND MORAL EDUCATION (REV) RPD
    R. S. PETERS
    First published in 1981, this collection of essays was taken from Peters’ larger work, Psychology and Ethical Development (1974) in order to provide a more focused volume on moral education for students. Peters’ background in both psychology and philosophy makes the work distinctive, which is evident from the first two essays alone: ‘Freud’s theory of Moral Development in Relat...

    $2,220.00

  • SOCIAL PRINCIPLES AND THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
    S. I. BENN / R. S. PETERS
    This book, originally published in 1959, makes explicit the social principles which underlie the procedures and political practice of the modern democratic state. The authors take the view that in the modern welfare state there are porblems connected with the nature of law, with concepts like rights, justice, equality, property, punishment, responsibility and liberty and which ...

    $5,300.00

  • THE LOGIC OF EDUCATION (RLE EDU K)
    P. H. HIRST AND R. S. PETERS
    This book explores the implications for the curriculum, for teaching and for the authority structure of schools and colleges of an analysis of ‘education’ in which the development of knowledge and understanding is accorded a central position. The book explains what philosophy of education is, and by concentrating on its central concepts, initiates readers into exploring it for ...

    $1,480.00

  • EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATION OF TEACHERS (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 18)
    R.S. PETERS
    This collection of important and significant papers examines a wide range of issues. One of the author's main concerns is to clarify the meaning of 'education' and 'quality in education' - a phrase often used in public debate but seldom scrutinized. Long-standing ambiguities latent in the concept of 'liberal education' are also exposed, and Herbert Spencer's question 'What know...

    $580.00