Education, Knowledge and Truth : Beyond the Postmodern Impasse

List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The post-war rise and fall of educational epistemology David Carr Part I: Knowledge in General 1. Knowledge, truth and education HArvey Siegel 2. Interpretation, construction and the 'postmodern' ethos David E. Cooper Part II: Knowledge in Particular 3. Science, education after postmodernism Jim MacKenzie 4. Truth in religion: Wittgensteinian considerations Fergus Kerr 5. Truth, arts education and the 'postmodern condition' Graham McFee 6. Fictional Truth Lynne McFall 7. Moral Education and the objectivity of values David Carr 8. Virtues and human flourishing: a teleological justification Jan Steutel Part III: The Wider Socio-Political Context 9. The politics of difference and common education Eamonn Callan 10. Epistemology, politics and curriculum construction Denis C. Phillips 11. Feminism, epistemology and education Shirley Pendlebury Part IV: Knowledge and Learning 12. Learning as invention: education and constructivism Christopher Winch 13. Education, knowledge and critical thinking Kevin Williams Postscript Index