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Education and Justification

R. S. Peters

Journal of Philosophy of Education 11 (1):28-38 (1977)

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R.S. Peters' 'The justification of education' revisited.Stefaan E. Cuypers - 2012 - Ethics and Education 7 (1):3 - 17.details In his 1973 paper ?The Justification of Education? R.S. Peters aspired to give a non-instrumental justification of education. Ever since, his so-called ?transcendental argument? has been under attack and most critics conclude that it does not work. They have, however, thrown the baby away with the bathwater, when they furthermore concluded that Peters? justificatory project itself is futile. This article takes another look at Peters? justificatory project. As against a Kantian interpretation, it proposes an axiological-perfectionist interpretation to bring out the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
(1 other version)On the Worthwhileness of Theoretical Activities.Michael Hand - 2009 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 43 (supplement s1):109-121.details R.S. Peters' arguments for the worthwhileness of theoretical activities are intended to justify education per se, on the assumption that education is necessarily a matter of initiating people into theoretical activities. If we give up this assumption, we can ask whether Peters' arguments might serve instead to justify the academic curriculum over other curricular arrangements. For this they would need to show that theoretical activities are not only worthwhile but, in some relevant sense, more worthwhile than activities of other kinds. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations
How should schools respond to the plurality of values in a multi-cultural society?Les Burwood - 1996 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 30 (3):415–427.details How should state schools respond to the plurality of values in a multicultural society? The liberal response has been that it is unacceptable to promote only the traditional, mainstream values of dominant groups and impose them on others. During the 1980s this response gradually evolved into an ideology of extreme subjectivism, commonly referred to as cultural relativism. This ideology is rejected and it is argued that the school must make crucial judgements about which values should be promoted, tolerated or condemned. Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Philosophical approaches to the justification of the curriculum.John Peter Portelli - unknowndetails Following recent developments in philosophy of education, this thesis attempts to relate work done in analytic philosophy of education to work done in normative philosophy of education. The first part of the thesis focuses on the analysis of the concept Curriculum. The aim of this analysis is to attempt to clarify Curriculum and show that it is an essentially normative concept. An examination of the nature of this concept raises serious moral issues, e.g. that of the justification of the content (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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