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Barr, Jean – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This paper seeks to reframe the idea of an educated public as construed by Alasdair MacIntyre in his lecture of 1985. Like MacIntyre, it locates the emergence of an educated public in the Scottish Enlightenment and its universities, but its focus is on aspects which are not brought into focus by MacIntyre's narrative. The paper argues, firstly,…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Global Approach, Intellectual History, Agenda Setting