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Teaching for commitment : liberal education, indoctrination and Christian nurture /

Thiessen calls for reconstruction of the Enlightenment ideal of liberal education from which the charge of indoctrination typically arises. He argues that liberal education necessarily builds on nurture and therefore needs to be more sensitive to the traditions into which a child is initiated. The i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thiessen, Elmer John, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 THE CHARGE OF RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION
  • Some Historical Observations and Examples
  • Some Philosophical Observations and Examples
  • Definition of Christian Nurture
  • Approach to be Taken
  • 2 LIBERAL EDUCATION: THE CONTEXT OF THE CHARGE OF INDOCTRINATION
  • History of Liberal Education
  • Peters's Concept of Liberal Education
  • One Possible Reply to the Charge of Religious Indoctrination
  • 3 CONTENT OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE SCIENTIFIC IDEAL
  • Doctrines
  • Doctrines, Religion, and Science
  • Indoctrination and DoctrinesChristian Nurture, Indoctrination, and the Ideal of Normal Science
  • 4 METHODS OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE IDEAL OF RATIONALITY
  • Indoctrinatory Teaching Methods
  • Unavoidability of Indoctrination
  • Responses to the Unavoidability of Non-rational Teaching Methods
  • Non-rational Teaching Methods Reconsidered
  • Rationality
  • Normal Rationality, Religion, and Christian Nurture
  • 5 INTENTIONS OF THE INDOCTRINATOR AND THE IDEAL OF AUTONOMY
  • The Enlightenment Ideal of Autonomy
  • Autonomy and Christian Nurture
  • Intentions
  • Critique of Enlightenment Ideal of AutonomyJustification of Autonomy
  • Christian Nurture and the Ideal of Autonomy
  • Nurturing Normal Autonomy
  • 6 CONSEQUENCES OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE IDEAL OF CRITICAL OPENNESS
  • Meaning of Critical Openness
  • Indoctrination and Consequences
  • Critique of Enlightenment Ideal of Critical Openness
  • Justification of Normal Critical Openness
  • Christian Nurture and Normal Critical Openness
  • 7 INSTITUTIONAL INDOCTRINATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL OF LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS
  • Peshkin, Bethany Baptist Academy, and Total InstitutionsCritique of Peshkin's Total Institutions
  • Liberal Institutions and State Public Schools
  • Normal Liberal Institutions
  • 8 RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION VS. LIBERAL EDUCATION: SOME CONCLUSIONS
  • Replies to the Charge of Religious Indoctrination
  • Toward a Reconstruction of the Ideal of Liberal Education
  • Two Concepts or Phases of Liberal Education
  • Toward a Reconstruction of a Theory of Indoctrination
  • Conclusion
  • 9 SOME PRACTICAL SUGESTIONS
  • The Initiation/Socialization Phase/Component of Christian NurtureChristian Nurture in Relation to Rationality and Autonomy
  • Toward Educational Pluralism
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
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