Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-277) and index.
1. Education as a Moral Practice: 13th Lawrence Kohlberg Memorial Lecture, given at the 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Moral Education, University of Glasgow, July 2000 -- 2. Educating Persons: Lecture given in the Series, Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal, University of Oxford, February 1996 -- 3. Aim of Education: Liberal or Vocational? Victor Cook Memorial Lecture, given at the Universities of Andrews, Aberdeen and Cambridge, 1993 -- 4. Context of Education: Monastery or Marketplace? Victor Cook Memorial Lecture, given at St. Andrews, Aberdeen and Cambridge, 1993 -- 5. Subject-Centered versus Chiold-Centered Education: a False Dualism: Paper given at the Annual Conference of the Society for Applied Philosophy, May 1988 -- 6. Standards and Quality in Education: Paper given at the Annual General Conference of theStanding Conference for the Study of Education -- 7. Political Education: Relevance of the Humanities -- 8. Commense and Education -- 9. Language of Curriculum Analysis: Doris Lee Memorial Lecture, Delivered at the Institute of Education, University of London, February 1975 -- 10. Knowledge our of Control -- 11. Evidence-Based Policy and Practice -- 12. Truth, Knowledge, and Power : Paper Given at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, September 2000 -- 12. False Dualism of Educational Research -- 14. Virtues and Vices of an Educational Researcher -- 15. Future of Educational Research: Paper Given at British Educational Researach Association, 2002.
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This book for the first time brings together Professor Pring's thoughts on the philosophy of education. His writings reflect a consistency of thought about educational theory and educational aims - and the consequence of both for the nature and practice of.