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Revisiting the Liberal and Vocational Dimensions of University Education

Year: 2009 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

The purposes of higher education in general and of university education in particular have long been subject to controversy. Whereas for some, the main role of universities is to provide professional and vocational educa...
Music, Spirituality, and Education

Year: 2008 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Few concerned with educational theory and policy could have failed to notice the recent upsurge of interest in the notion of spiritual development as a possible aim or goal of public or common schooling. A more presently...
On the Contribution of Literature and the Arts to the Educational Cultivation of Moral Virtue, Feeling and Emotion

Year: 2005 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

This paper sets out to explore connections between a number of plausible claims concerning education in general and moral education in particular: (i) that education is a matter of broad cultural initiation rather than n...
Moral Values and the Arts in Environmental Education: Towards an Ethics of Aesthetic Appreciation

Year: 2004 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

There appear to be various respects in which the outdoor environment has been regarded as significant for education in general and moral education in particular. Whereas some educationalists have considered the environme...
Moral Formation, Cultural Attachment or Social Control: What's the Point of Values Education?

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Discusses the importance of values education, focusing on: the primary moral concerns of values education; varieties of values education (law, culture, and morality); varieties of values education (cultural diversity); v...
Songs of Immanence and Transcendence: A Rejoinder to Blake.

Year: 1996 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Argues against the limited definition of spiritual education as strictly concerned with the mystical and transcendental. Maintains that a broader application of spiritual education can and should be offered. Asserts that...
Practical Enquiry, Values, and the Problem of Educational Theory.

Year: 1992 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Discusses the proper balance between theory and practice in the professional preparation of teachers. Contents that the argument between educational theory and school-based practice is based mistakenly on the premise tha...
Cooperative Education: A State-Level View.

Year: 1984 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Discusses the fact that fewer state and federal dollars are available to higher education to support existing programs and start new ones. Explains why and offers suggestions that may help cooperative education survive a...
Dance Education, Skill, and Behavioral Objectives.

Year: 1984 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

It is argued that a behavioral objectives approach to dance education is dangerously limited because it is dominated by a particular view of theoretical psychology that attempts to understand skill learning in terms of c...