Defending the Value of Education as a Public Good: Philosophical Dialogues on Education and the State

This edited volume explores the philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, highlighting its benefits in a civil and flourishing societal context. It critiquues the states role in supporting and strengthening education, presenting in-depth philosophical and historical arguments that illustrate its role as a non-partisan public good. Diverse voices from different contexts argue for the intrinsic value of education, reconciling the Anglo-American Continental dialogues on education. The book offers novel ideas and encourages new research, useful for scholars, researchers, and academics in philosophy of education, education policy, sociology of education, and theory of education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 20 February 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited volume, centered around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, showcases the numerous benefits that education brings to a civil and flourishing societal context. It also critically examines the state's role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus. The chapters present in-depth philosophical and historical arguments that explore core aspects of education that are often overlooked, illustrating education's role as a non-partisan public good during contentious times. Through this volume, diverse voices are heard from individuals with experience of life under communism as well as life in a stable democracy, arguing, for instance, that despite differing contexts, the value of education is autonomous and intrinsic. Ultimately, the book draws on conceptual frameworks to reconcile the Anglo-American Continental dialogues on education and presents novel and challenging ideas to its readers.

Striving to inspire new research through its various reflections on the relationship between education and the state, this book will be valuable to scholars, researchers, and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, education policy, sociology of education, and theory of education.

The Introduction, as well as Chapters 3, 5, 6, and 7, are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 license.

Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Weight: 600g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032471693