What Hopes for Liberal Education?

NOTES AND REFERENCES

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• The most notable and consistently profound being those in many of the writings of the late Lawrence Stenhouse, the clearest of the critics of behavioural objectives
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• For example the chemistry assessment objective, under ‘understanding,’ which requires pupils to be able to ‘explain the social, economic, environmental and technological implications of chemistry'! See GCSE: The National Criteria: Chemistry, p. 2
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• Ron Wallace: TVEI as liberal education, in: Rex Gibson (Ed.), op. cit
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• The stick was the threat to set up separate schools of a vocational kind outside the normal system. The financial carrot is well known
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• Ron Wallace, op. cit
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• But see BPP, Chapter 9
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• John Stuart Mill: Essay on Liberty, Chap. 5. See p. 239 in the convenient Fontana paperback edited by Mary Warnock 1962
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• Ratz , Joseph . 1986 . The Morality of Freedom , Oxford : OUP . The clearest expositor of the connection between the principles that should govern the liberal state and the necessity for liberal education is to be found in Bruce Ackerman 1980 Social Justice and the Liberal State. New Haven: Yale University Press). Other liberal political philosophers who convey the same idea include: John Rawls 1971 A Theory of Justice. Oxford: OUP); Alan Gewirth 1978 Reason and Morality Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
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• ibid para. 7
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• The National Curriculum, para. 8(i). [18] ibid. para 8(iii
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• Bruce Ackerman: op. cit., see especially Chapters 4 and 5
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• See Charles Bailey, BPP, pp. 44‐45 and 226
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• Joseph Ratz, op. cit., pp. 407‐8
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• ibid
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