'Education For Commitment' A Logical Contradiction?

Authors

  • Brian V. Hill School of Education, Murdoch University, Western Australia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v15i3.43911

Abstract

Historical pressures have given rise to a doctrine that public education must be value-neutral in its curriculum. Education is to be seen as aiming at enlightenment but not commitment. Versions of value-neutrality are refuted, including the view that the goal of rational autonomy is non-partisan. This is seen to be a normative commitment, albeit educative, from which it appears that education can aim for commitments of a certain kind. Three other basic commitments consistent with the modem notion of education are identified and defended.

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Published

2018-05-11

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (1981)

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