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Childhood and the Philosophy of Education : an Anti-Aristotelian Perspective.
Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children (like women, animals, slaves, and the mob) as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. Despite much rhetoric concerning either the sinfulness or purity...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2008.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in educational research.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children (like women, animals, slaves, and the mob) as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. Despite much rhetoric concerning either the sinfulness or purity of children (as in Puritanism and Romanticism respectively), the assumption that children are marginal has endured. Modern theories, including recent interpretations of neuroscience, have re-enforced this sense of children''s incompleteness. This fascinating monograph seeks to overturn this philo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0826499724 9780826499721 1441198334 9781441198334 9781441190185 144119018X |