THE AIMS OF EDUCATION ppt

[...]... argument for rejecting either our commitment to the conventional rules of logic or the idea that there are some facts to be taken account of, albeit our view of what they are should be recognised as tentative The importance of emphasising the need for inquiry into the aims of education, which I take to be another way of referring to the need to examine the concept of education, cannot therefore be dismissed... philosophers of 2 AIMS! WHOSE AIMS? education with an alternative, and more profitable, approach to consideration of the aims of education Locating the aims of education When analytic philosophers claimed that ‘in formulating aims of education we are attempting to specify more precisely what qualities we think it most desirable to develop’, ‘we’ tended to be either self-referential, possibly to include other... conceptions of education and seek to ground our practice in the most plausible account of the ideal Some years ago work on aims in education tended to focus on two points: (1) the distinction between aims and objectives, and (2) the claim that the aims of education are intrinsic to the concept The former concern has always struck me as rather sterile and questionable Certainly, in terms of clearing the ground... views of education over the centuries arise not from any rejection of this fundamental criterion, but from shifts in views about the nature of knowledge and understanding It therefore seems not unreasonable to argue that the essence of education today is the provision of understanding of the dominant traditions of thought and inquiry in the Western tradition, including of course, recognition of the limits...PREFACE The Aims of Education is a new collection of essays written by some of the most distinguished philosophers of education in Britain, North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa There is surprisingly little in book form specifically concerned with the aims of education and it is with the intention of filling this gap that the present collection has been produced All of the essays are... conclusion about the concept education it follows that in attempting to understand what is meant by the aims of education one has to accept that it is the normative aspect of education that aims are picking out: that is, the aims of education are identified by means of the norms that are part and parcel of education Peters then has, to his satisfaction at least, answered the question he began with,... meant by the aims of education? ’ Understanding the meaning of education involves understanding the different criteria that are involved in elucidating the concept and so coming to see that any aim of education must be related to the intrinsically worthwhile as identified by his analysis of the concept of education Furthermore, his logically tight connection between the two concepts reveals that there... connection asserted between education and its aims, serve as a critique of his understanding of the aims of the education. Thus Woods offers counter-examples to Peters’ analysis of education which purport to show that Peters is prescribing one use of the term over another (ibid.: 33), as does Dray (ibid., pp 36–7) It would follow that Peters’ understanding of the aims of education is equally prescriptive and... or aims. To argue about the aims of education is to argue about what it is to be educated It is, therefore, worrying that today there is relatively little discussion of the aims (or the concept) of education This I relate to three main considerations, although I do not venture to go deeply into what was cause and what effect: a general decline of interest in philosophy of education; the influence of. .. between aims and objectives, and there may be some warrant in usage for the view that aims are more general than ‘objectives’ – for example, The derivation of educational aims from values, educational objectives from aims (Goodlad and Richter 1966); ‘As a rule [the aim] is too general to guide specific instructional decisions That is the function of objectives’ (Pratt 1980) But the fact of the matter . philosophers of AIMS! WHOSE AIMS? 3 education with an alternative, and more profitable, approach to consideration of the aims of education. Locating the aims of education When. for considering the aims of education. It indicates, to begin with, that the aims of education, like both the concept and the process of education, are