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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819920303321

Autore

Emberley Peter C (Peter Christopher), <1956->

Titolo

Values education and technology : the ideology of dispossession / / Peter C. Emberley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-282-00285-6

9786612002854

1-4426-8301-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Toronto Studies in Education

Disciplina

370.114

Soggetti

Moral education

Values - Study and teaching

Technology - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Values and Values Education: Towards a New Regime -- 2. The World and Spirit as Possession -- 3. Values Education: Three Models -- 4. Values Development: The Hegelian Experiment -- 5. Values Clarification: The Nietzschean Experiment -- 6. The Technological Environment -- 7. From Dispossession to Possession.

Sommario/riassunto

The consequence of this collusion between values education and technological consciousness is a person who cannot be critical of technology, one who cannot recognize any limits to our technological prowess. Whether this collusion is intentional or inadvertent is one of the many issues Emberley pursues. He proposes pedagogical options which revive the spirit (though not the letter) of the 'traditional curriculum.' He argues that the aim of education is to produce a character that does not allow reason to become merely a faculty of shrewd calculation and technical expertise.

For decades, values education has been one of the most hotly contested areas of reappraisal in school curricula. This book



contributes to the debate with the controversial proposition that the current modes of values education are not cultivating the qualities associated with moral judgment and character, that they are in fact producing a consciousness which merely reinforces some of the potentially destructive tendencies of modern technology.