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The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876.
The Mentor Philosophers was a series of six books each covering a period of philosophical thought, published by the New American Library. Each book was edited by an esteemed contemporary philosophy academic and contained analysis of a group of philosophers from a chosen period. The series was very influential during the 1950s and 1960s, and was ...
Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy. [a] The phrase "contemporary philosophy" is a piece of technical terminology in philosophy that refers to a specific ...
Pages in category "American philosophers of education" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
John Dewey (/ ˈ d uː i /; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer.He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
His book The Subjection of Women (1861, publ.1869) is one of the earliest written on this subject by a male author. [75] In The Subjection of Women, Mill attempts to make a case for perfect equality. [76] In his proposal for a universal education system sponsored by the state, Mill expands benefits for many marginalized groups, especially for ...
A central question in the philosophy of education concerns the aims of education, i.e. the question of why people should be educated and what goals should be pursued in the process of education. [ 8 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 14 ] This issue is highly relevant for evaluating educational practices and products by assessing how well they manage to realize ...