SECTION A - PAIDEIA Flashcards
KEELEY (2007)
Relates to ARISTOTLE and SOPHISTS.
Economic success relies on Human Capital - the knowledge and skills we can contribute to ones personal and social wellbeing and their respective country/societies
DILLON (2013)
PARA 2. : Subjects
PAIDEIA belief: structured studying of abstract subjects are the best training for the mind, even for practical problems
PARA 3: Society
The Good’, an achievement that gives……the recipient a comprehensive understanding of reality enabling him/her…to administer the state with great prudence at a practical level”
CASTLE (1961)
PARA 3: Society
20th C liberal educationists
Oakeshott and Dewey - education to “free men of all things”
“has to do with the making of men not the training of men to make thing”
NAUGLE (2003)
PARA 2: Subjects
‘Gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, poetry, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, astronomy and the physical sciences, history of society and ethics, and philosophy—the complete pedagogical course of study necessary to produce a well-rounded, fully educated citizen” - shaping of the Greek character ideal defined by Plato as the“strenuous development of his intellect, will, and body”
KATO (2018)
Intro
PAIDEIA ‘connected with the concept of truth and the relation of man to it’
Modern education: multiculturalism has become one of the main concerns’ (not class disparity as it was in Paideia).
MILLER (2007)
PARA 4 - Contradiction
“The aim of modern education and educational theory is to foster the development, expression and realisation of that self, as well as to provide some essential life and workplace skills” Paideia
CONTRADICTION
Not to cultivate ‘the truth’ but “instead to provide opportunities for all pupils to learn and achieve”, only to “promote pupils spiritual, moral, social and cultural development”. only promote?
CRIBIORE (2005)
Wealth disparity
PAIDEIA: most parents paid for children’s education, organised by teacher “fundamentally private”.
ARISTOTLE
Relates to KEELEY 2007 and SOPHISTS
Everyone has something to contribute to society’s welfare.
PLATO (TRANS. PANGLE, 1988)
Relates to PATTERSON (2013)
The Child is a “wild animal”
SOPHISTS
RELATAVISTIC VIEW
(relates to ARISTOTLE and KEELEY, 2007)
Teachers that ‘truth’ is more subjective - paideia not to teach absolute truth - each student learns truth most advantageous to them and their society.
BECKER (1964)
PARA 3: Society
Human Capital Theory – similar to aims of Grecian schooling - “the abilities and qualities of people that make them productive” with “knowledge as the most important of these”
PATTERSON (2013)
Relates to PLATO (wild animal)
“Education in its most basic sense is about training the child’s experience of pleasure and pain. Children need to be led to experience pleasure and pain in the correct way.”
