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ERIC Number: EJ1465920
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Apr
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
EISSN: EISSN-1741-5446
Available Date: 2025-03-20
Does Indoctrination Still Matter?
Educational Theory, v75 n2 p276-291 2025
For at least half a century, there has been a broad consensus that indoctrination is a pernicious form of miseducation and a distinctive vice of teaching. In recent years, a number of educational theorists have sought to cast doubt on this view. They suggest that the attention traditionally given to the threat of indoctrination, and the anxiety induced by it, are significantly misplaced. Here, Michael Hand distinguishes three forms of indoctrination skepticism -- the "impossibility objection," the "unavoidability objection," and the "desirability objection" -- and argues that all three miss their mark. A fourth challenge to the standard view -- the "third-party objection" -- does not downplay the threat of indoctrination but does deny that it is a distinctive vice of teaching. Hand contends that this objection too is unpersuasive and concludes that the standard view is the correct one.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
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Author Affiliations: 1School of Education, University of Birmingham