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Direct linkDavid Lewin – Ethics and Education, 2025
This paper develops work undertaken by the "After Religious Education" project which seeks to reimagine Religious Education in schools for a context in which both religious and non-religious worldviews are taken seriously. One of the longstanding challenges for RE teachers in schools in England has been how to reconcile the broad range…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Educational Objectives, Spiritual Development
Wolbert, Lynne S.; de Ruyter, Doret J.; Schinkel, Anders – Ethics and Education, 2015
Human flourishing is the topic of an increasing number of books and articles in educational philosophy. Flourishing should be regarded as an ideal aim of education. If this is defended, the first step should be to elucidate what is meant by flourishing, and what exactly the concept entails. Listing formal criteria can facilitate reflection on the…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Self Actualization, Psychological Patterns
Yun, SunInn – Ethics and Education, 2014
This paper considers the place of freedom in discussions of the aims of education. Bearing in mind remarks of R.S. Peters to the affect that the singling out of aims can "fall into the hands of rationalistically minded curriculum planners", it begins by considering the views of Roland Reichenbach regarding Bildung and his account of this…
Descriptors: Freedom, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Phenomenology
MacAllister, James; Macleod, Gale; Pirrie, Anne – Ethics and Education, 2013
This article addresses two main questions: (1) what is excellence and (2) should epistemic excellence be the main purpose of education? Though references to excellence have become increasingly frequent in the UK education policy, these questions are perhaps especially important in Scotland where the curriculum is explicitly "for"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, National Curriculum
Masschelein, Jan; Simons, Maarten – Ethics and Education, 2015
Against the background of the many attacks on the school as being outdated, alienating, ineffective and reproducing inequalities we offer a morphological understanding of the school as distinguished from functionalist understandings (sociological or economical perspectives in terms of functions and roles) and idealistic understandings…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
Maxwell, Bruce – Ethics and Education, 2008
This paper challenges a pervasive curricular justification for educationally acquainting young people with stories of genocide and other moral horrors from history. According to this justification, doing so favours the development of psycho-social soft skills connected with interpersonal awareness and the establishment and maintenance of positive…
Descriptors: United States History, Death, History Instruction, Ethics
