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Yosef-Hassidim, Doron – Educational Theory, 2021
This article offers a general framework for considering education's autonomy and its implications for the relationship between education and philosophy. In it, Doron Yosef-Hassidim examines an initiative in Israel that calls for an autonomous secular public education and uses it as a context to clarify what education's autonomy means and to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Public Education, Humanism
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Thomas Everth – Assessment Matters, 2022
Due to anthropogenic impacts generated by colonial and neocapitalist cultures, the world is now moving on accelerating trajectories toward dystopian futures. Education, traditionally engineered as an instrument of cultural reproduction, now urgently needs to adopt a leadership role for cultural transformation to generate a sustainable future. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Sustainability, Educational Objectives
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Geibel, William Robertson – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2020
Over the last several decades, universities around the world have initiated processes of internationalization in an effort to respond to the growing influence of globalization and remain leaders in the vastly competitive space of higher education (Helms, Brajkovic, and Struthers 2017; Knight 2012). Universities have focused their…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Humanism, Educational Objectives, Global Approach
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Ross Collin – English Journal, 2017
This article outlines four different views of ELA's economic mission. It also presents a classroom activity in which students (a) evaluate the four views and (b) advocate for their own ideas about ELA and economics.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Educational Objectives, Economic Factors
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Armstrong, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This is the text of Michael Armstrong's address to the Brian Simon Centenary conference, held at the Institute of Education on 26 March 2015. Michael Armstrong celebrates the humanism that underlay Brian's belief in a common system of education, democratic and non-selective, and finds its counterpart in the creative practice of school children.
Descriptors: Humanism, Conference Papers, Democratic Values, Equal Education
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MacIntyre, Peter D.; Mercer, Sarah – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Positive psychology is a rapidly expanding subfield in psychology that has important implications for the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This paper introduces positive psychology to the study of language by describing its key tenets. The potential contributions of positive psychology are contextualized with reference to prior work,…
Descriptors: Psychology, Well Being, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
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Foray, Philippe – European Educational Research Journal, 2011
In France, the philosophy of education is not accustomed to reflect on the concept of the "education system". Often, the "humanistic" purposes that it gives to education are far away from the real goals of a systematic education. Often also, it is confined to a critical attitude, whose constructive side is missing. Which form…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Humanism
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Bennett, John B. – Teachers College Record, 1980
Whitehead's analysis of experience can contribute to an understanding of the process of liberal education by distinguishing among the experiential bases and characters of various kinds of knowledge. Subjective experience is identified as the basis of all philosophical inquiry. (JN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Educational Objectives, Experience, Experiential Learning
Dostalova, Radmila – 1993
Although the humanistic and democratic practices in the Czech Republic secondary schools are currently insufficient due to the communist regime prior to 1989, a tradition exists in the Czech cultural background for humanity and democracy in education, and those values can be incorporated into the school environment again. The long term isolation…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Cultural Background, Cultural Influences
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Imbrogno, Salvatore – Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 1996
A fundamental goal of multicultural social work education and practice should be to integrate humanism and a syncretic approach to learning that addresses value conflicts resulting from cultural diversity. Describes a model integrating this goal with dimensions of social work practice, including social welfare policy planning and development,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Conflict
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Alexander, Hanan A. – Theory and Research in Education, 2005
It is generally supposed that a curriculum should engage students with worthwhile knowledge, which requires an understanding of what it means for something to be worthwhile: a substantive conception of the good. Yet a number of influential curriculum theories deny or undermine one or another aspect of the key assumption upon which a meaningful…
Descriptors: Ethics, Curriculum Development, Value Judgment, Educational Theories
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Crittenden, Brian – Education Research and Perspectives, 2005
In recent years, Australian universities, like many in other countries, have been increasingly driven by the values of commercial enterprise. A key consequence has been the growing emphasis on the kinds of vocational education likely to attract large enrollments and be financially profitable. In strengthening such programs (and related research),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, General Education, Educational Change, Role of Education