Education and responsibility / Tunis Romein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romein, Tunis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moral education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University of Kentucky Press, 1955.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book reveals the sources of the disquiet prevailing among educators over the apparent failure of the public school system to develop moral responsibility in America's youth. The doctrine of separation of church and state has made sectarian religious training illegal in public schools, and Tunis Romein shows that the task of providing moral guidance, suddenly thrust upon educators, has disclosed their deep schisms in educational philosophy -- basic contradictions which have split American education from top to bottom.Romein explains the basic conflicts in education by examining three educa

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyrights; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; I: PROGRESSIVISM; 1. Progressivism in Outline; 2. A Pragmatic Concept of the Nature of Man; 3. A Progressive Solution to the Problem of Developing Responsibility; II: CLASSICAL HUMANISM; 4. Classical Humanism in Outline; 5. A Greek Concept of the Nature of Man; 6. A Classical Solution to the Problem of Developing Responsibility; III: EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM; 7. Educational Reconstructionism in Outline; 8. A Social Concept of the Nature of Man; 9. A Radical Solution to the Problem of Developing Responsibility

IV: EDUCATION, THE COMMUNITY, AND CHRISTIAN FAITH10. Education, the State, and Christian Faith; 11. Reformation and Thomistic Concepts of the Nature of Man; 12. Education and Neo-Reformation Christian Faith; 13. A Theological Solution to the Problem of Developing Responsibility; 14. Education, the Community, and Christian Faith; Critical Essay on References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6428-1

OCLC:

933515988