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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
    ROBIN BARROW / RONALD WOODS
    This introductory text, now in its fifth edition, is a classic in its field. It shows, first and foremost, the importance of philosophy in educational debate and as a background to any practical activity such as teaching. What is involved in the idea of educating a person or the idea of educational success? What are the criteria for establishing the optimum balance between form...

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  • UNDERSTANDING SKILLS
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    UNDERSTANDING SKILLS
    ROBIN BARROW
    It is widely agreed that education should involve the development of understanding, critical thinking, imagination, and emotions. However, this book, first published in 1990, argues that our views to these key concepts are confused and inaccurate, and therefore what we do in schools is generally inappropriate to our ideal. This book will be of interest to students of education ...

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  • INJUSTICE, INEQUALITY AND ETHICS
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    INJUSTICE, INEQUALITY AND ETHICS
    ROBIN BARROW
    Abortion, distribution of wealth, civil disobedience, reverse discrimination, sex-role stereotyping, censorship – what does philosophy have to contribute to these practical moral issues? In this important book, first published in 1982, Robin Barrow argues convincingly that the capacity to make fine conceptual discriminations is crucial to an informed response to such issues, an...

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  • UTILITARIANISM
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    UTILITARIANISM
    ROBIN BARROW
    In this book, first published in 1991, the author Dr Robin Barrow adopts the view that utilitarianism is the most coherent and persuasive ethical theory we have and argues in favour of a specific form of rule-utilitarianism. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy. ...

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  • GIVING TEACHING BACK TO TEACHERS
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    GIVING TEACHING BACK TO TEACHERS
    ROBIN BARROW
    This book, first published in 1984, aims to bring together the interests of the theory and practice of the education system and, within the former, relate the approaches and claims of the constituent disciplines to each other. Throughout the book, while arguing for the importance of facing up to the logical links between theory and practice, the author seeks to point out the ex...

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  • LANGUAGE, INTELLIGENCE, AND THOUGHT
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    LANGUAGE, INTELLIGENCE, AND THOUGHT
    ROBIN BARROW
    In this text, first published in 1993, Barrow decisively rejects the traditional assumption that intelligence has no educational significance and contends instead that intelligence is developed by the enlargement of understanding. Arguing that much educational research is driven by a concept of intelligence that has no obvious educational relevance, Dr Barrow suggests that this...

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  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOOLING
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    THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOOLING
    ROBIN BARROW
    This book, first published in 1981, provides a penetrating and lucid introduction to the philosophy of education. The emphasis on schooling rather than education draws attention to the broad spectrum of the book: recognising that schools generally do more than educate, Dr. Barrow specifically addresses himself to the larger question of what schools are for and what they should ...

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  • BEYOND LIBERAL EDUCATION
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    BEYOND LIBERAL EDUCATION
    BARROW, ROBIN / WHITE, PATRICIA
    This collection of essays by philosophers and educationalists of international reputation, all published here for the first time, celebrates Paul Hirst's professional career. The introductory essay by Robin Barrow and Patricia White outlines Paul Hirst's career and maps the shifts in his thought about education, showing how his views on teacher education, the curriculum and edu...

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  • HAPPINESS (RLE EDU K)
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    HAPPINESS (RLE EDU K)
    ROBIN BARROW
    The first part of the book reviews empirical work relating to happiness (including attitudinal studies), claims made in an educational context and postwar philosophical treatment of the concept. There is a useful account of Aristotle’s pioneering work and a stimulating summary of some of the main themes to be found in the literature concerning happiness. In the second part the ...

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  • RADICAL EDUCATION (RLE EDU K)
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    RADICAL EDUCATION (RLE EDU K)
    ROBIN BARROW
    This volume is a comprehensive critique of the radical tradition in educational theory. It traces the development of the key ideas in radical literature from Rousseau to the present day. Two opening chapters set Rousseau’s educational views and arguments in their political perspective, and subject them to an extended critical treatment. Subsequent chapters provide detailed anal...

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  • PLATO AND EDUCATION (RLE EDU K)
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    PLATO AND EDUCATION (RLE EDU K)
    ROBIN BARROW
    This introduction to Plato’s philosophical and educational thought examines Plato’s views and relates them to issues and questions that occupy philosophers of education. Robin Barrow stresses the relevance of Plato today, while introducing the student both to Plato’s philosophy and to contemporary educational debate. In the first part of the book the author examines Plato’s his...

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  • COMMON SENSE AND THE CURRICULUM
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    COMMON SENSE AND THE CURRICULUM
    ROBIN BARROW
    This book addresses the question ‘What should be taught in schools and why?’. The book begins by stressing the way in which such a question should be approached and goes on to offer a comprehensive and stringent critique of a variety of principles for the selection of curriculum content, with particularly important sections on deschooling and the hidden culture curriculum theor...

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  • MORAL PHILOSOPHY FOR EDUCATION (RLE EDU K)
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    MORAL PHILOSOPHY FOR EDUCATION (RLE EDU K)
    ROBIN BARROW
    Teachers and students are frequently confused as to the relevance of abstract philosophical theorising to the reality of the classroom and this book is distinctive for the attention it devotes to philosophy and its potential contribution to practical matters, and education in particular. The author is critical of many current views of the philosophy of education and argues the ...

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  • PLATO, UTILITARIANISM AND EDUCATION (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 3)
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    PLATO, UTILITARIANISM AND EDUCATION (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 3)
    ROBIN BARROW
    Three lines of argument are central to this book: that Plato's views as expounded in the Republic indicate that he was a utilitarian; that utilitarianism is the only acceptable ethical theory; that these conclusions have significant repercussions for education. Throughout the book the exposition of utilitarianism and the interpretation of the Republic are closely linked. The au...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND MORAL EDUCATION
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND MORAL EDUCATION
    ROBIN BARROW
    This book presents and argues for a moral theory which draws on most of the major theoretical positions to some degree, but it also spells out the limits and boundaries of a moral theory. In doing so, it exposes a number of common confusions and misunderstandings about morality, and presents a strong argument for some indisputable truths in relation to the moral sphere. Divided...

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