Aims of Education Restated (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 22)

<p>John White's study is the most substantial work on what the aims of education should be since Whitehead's <em>Aims of Education</em> of 1929. It draws on material not only from schools and colleges but also from the broader educative or miseducative nature of the 'ethos' of society and some of its major institutions. Sifting the different views about aims which are now prevalent and circulating in the world of education he integrates the more defensible of them into an articulated set of positive recommendations. The study takes a broadly philosophical and non-technical stand; it is written to help practitioners orient themselves in what is often bewildering territory at a time when the question of what the aims of education ought to be has acquired a new urgency for politicians and educational administrators as well as for those directly involved in educational institutions head teachers and their staff. </p>