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Egan, Kieran

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The Ideas That Run Schools. Research in Focus.

Year: 2003 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

All educational thinking springs from three ancient theories: education should provide skills to succeed in society; education should stimulate the search for truth through academic excellence; and education should give ...
Education's Three Old Ideas, and a Better Idea.

Year: 1999 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Discusses three educational ideas, demonstrating their incompatibility: (1) a focus on socialization; (2) Plato's notion that education is the process of seeking truth about reality; and (3) Jean-Jacques Rousseau's idea ...