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Notes 1. The Reconstruction of the Philosophy ofEducation I. Sven Erik Nordenbo, "Philosophy of Education in the Western World: Developmental Trends During the Last 25 Years," International Review ~f Education, 25:2-3 (1979 ):435. Also of interest is R. F. Dearden, "Philosophy of Education, 1952-1982," British Journal ofEducational Studies, 30 (February 1982):57-71. 2. These papers appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, 52 (27 October 1955):612-33. 3. Ibid., 632. 4. Harvard Educational Review, 26 (Spring 1956). Many of the impOltant papers by philosophers on the philosophy of education from the fifties and sixties have been collected by Christopher Lucas in What 1s the Philosophy ofEducation? (New York: Macmillan, 1969). 5. Nelson Henry, ed. Modem Philosophies and Education (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955). The Eightieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education has reeently been published and contains an interesting retrospective study by Harry Broudy, "Between the Yearbooks," Philosophy and Education, ed. Jonas Soltis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 13-35. 6. Israel Scheffler, ed., Philosophy and Education (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1958). 7. Cf. William Frankena, "Toward a Philosophy of the Philosophy of Education," Harvard EducationalReview, 26 (Spring I956):94--98, and his "Toward a Philosophy of Moral Education," Harvard Educational Review, 28 (Pall 1958):300--313; Israel Scheffler , The Language 0/Education (Springfield, III.: Charles Thomas, 1960), and Conditions ofKnowledge (Fair Lawn, N.J.: Scott, Foresman, 1965). 8. Hardie's book has been reissued by Teachers College Press with a preface by James McClellan and Paul Komisar assessing its significance. O'Connor's book is still in print. For a thoughtful review of the development of the philosophy of education in England since World War II, see R. S. Peters, "The Philosophy of Education," in The Study of Education, cd. J. W. TibbIe (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966), 59-89. Peters has also contributed to the special issue of the Teachers College Record (Winter 1979):463-82, which deals with "Philosophy of Education since Midcentury." 9. Nordenbo, "Philosophy of Education," 453. 10. A typical example of Peter's continuing influence is a recent collection ofarticles edited by Donald Cochrane and Martin Schiralli, Philosophy ofEducation; Canadian 127 128 Notes to Pages 2-6 Perspectives (Don Mills, Ontario: Collier Macmillan Canada, 1982). The editors admit that the main thrust of the articles follows the approach of the "London school" and add that this should not be surprising since "by far the largest number of active philosophers of education have their roots in the mode that Peters best exemplifies" (p. 4). I I. Reprinted as "Education as Initiation," in Philosophical Analysis and Education, cd. R. D. Archambault (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965),87-11 I. 12. Ibid., 92. 13. R. S. Peters, Ethics alld Education (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966). 14. Ibid., 15. 15. Ibid., 16. 16. Ibid., 25. 17. A good recent translation of the Meno is that of G. M. A. Grube (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1976). 18. For a typical example of a view of values education that sees no need for further discussion Of critical reflection on the matter, see Kathleen Gow, Yes Virginia, There Is Right and lt1'Olzg (Toronto: John Wiley and Sons, 1980). An effective antidote, which looks at some of the philosophical difficulties underlying moral education, is Robert Carter, Dimensions ofMoral Education (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984). 19. For a perceptive account of what Meno learns from his encounter with Socrates, see Robert S. Bl'Umbaugh, "Plato's Meno as Form and Content of Secondary School Courses in Philosophy," Teaching Philosophy, 1 (Fall 1975):107-15. 20. P. H. Hirst and R. S. Peters, The Logic ofEducation (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970), 11. 2 I. Richard Robinson, "Socratic Definition," in Plato'sMeno: Text amiCriticism, cd. Alexander Sesonske and Noel Fleming (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1965), 65-76. Also of interest is I. M. Crombie, "Socratic Definition," in Paideia, 5 (1976):80-102. 22. R. S. Peters, "Education and the Educated Man," in Education and the Development of Reason, PaIt I, ed. R. R Dearden, P. H. Hirst, and R. S. Peters (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972),7. 23. Cf. William Dray's commentary on Peters's "Aims of Education-A Conceptual Inquhy," in The Philosophy of Education, ed. R. S. Peters (Oxford University Press, 1973), 34-39· 24. Cf. Abraham Edel, "Analytic Philosophy of Education at the Crossroads," in Educational Judgments, cd. James Doyle (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), 232-57. Tho other criticisms in a similar vein are R...

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