Conservative Case for Education

Against the Current

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvNicholas Tate

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The Conservative Case for Education argues that educational thinking in English-speaking countries over the last fifty years has been massively influenced by a dominant liberal ideology based on unchallenged assumptions. Conservative voices pushing against the current of this ideology have been few, but powerful and drawn from across the political spectrum. The book shows how these twentieth-century voices remain highly relevant today, using them to make a conservative case for education.Written by a former government adviser and head teacher, the book focuses on four of the most powerful of these conservative voices: the poet and social critic T. S. Eliot, the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, the political thinker Hannah Arendt and the educationist E D Hirsch. In the case of each thinker, the book shows how their ideas throw fresh light on contemporary educational issues. These issues range widely across current educational practice and include: creativity, cultural literacy, mindfulness, the place of religion in schools, education for citizenship, the teaching of history and Classics, the authority of the teacher, the arguments for and against a national curriculum, the educational response to cultural diversity, and more. A concluding chapter sums up the conservative case for education in a set of Principles that would be acceptable to many from the Left, as well as the Right of the political spectrum.The book should be of particular interest to educators and educational policy makers at a time when ‘conservative’ governments are in power in the UK and the USA, as well as to researchers, academics and postgraduate students engaged in the study of educational policy, or those studying educational issues from an ethical, philosophical and cultural standpoint.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-19
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
Antal sidor256
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367181925

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Nicholas Tate was Chief Executive of England’s School Curriculum and Assessment Authority and its successor body the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, during the years 1994-2000. Since 2000 he has been Head of Winchester College (2000-3) and The International School of Geneva (2003-2011), as well as of a global network of schools. He chaired the International Baccalaureate’s Education Committee for five years and served on the French Education Minister’s Haut Conseil de l’Évaluation de l’École. He has a doctorate in history and has written extensively on history and education.

Introduction Confronting education’s group think Part One: T S Eliot1. Eliot as student and teacher2. Changing definitions of culture and society - Eliot as social and cultural critic3. Education for wisdom, happiness and ‘getting on’ - in that order 4. Educating the Few and the Many 5. Compulsion versus choice6. How we forgot about the nation state: education for identity and citizenship 7. Educating for prejudice (and against it) 8. Whatever happened to education for a Christian society? 9. Is there any future for Classics?Chapter Ten. Creativity depends on transmission10. Creativity depends on transmissionPart Two: Michael Oakeshott 11. Michael Oakeshott: philosopher and educator12. School as a place apart13. The project to abolish ‘School’ 14. Moral, historical and political education15. The decline of the University: from Cardinal Newman to the 2015 Higher Education Green Paper Part Three: Hannah Arendt16. Radical objectives and conservative pedagogy 17. The need to stop and think Part Four: E D Hirsch18. The pariah strikes back: teaching for cultural literacyConclusion The Fifteen Principles of a conservative case for education

‘Nicholas Tate enthusiastically and cogently exposes the harmfulness of liberalism in education and offers an alternative - conservatism as advanced by four critical writers and theorists not often associated with it - T.S. Eliot, Michael Oakeshott, Hannah Arendt and E D Hirsch. The Conservative Case for Education is not an apology for conservatism; it is a provocation.’ William G. Durden, President Emeritus, Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA), Chief Global Engagement Officer, the International University Alliance (Boston, MA) and Joint Appointment Professor (research), School of Education, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)'Through exploring the work of Eliot, Oakeshott, Arendt and Hirsch alongside each other, Tate makes a compelling case for the significance of knowledge of and from the past to the project of education. This view is conservative because it looks to preserve culturally elite knowledge through its intergenerational transmission. However, it is also, at best, a radical challenge to today’s educational groupthink that denies children access to the knowledge of the past and leaves them, floundering, with nothing beyond their own narrow horizons.'Joanna Williams is education editor at spiked. The full review, Education: a radical tradition, can be read here: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/an-educational-revolution/

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