{"title":"The provenance of the forms of knowledge thesis","authors":"P. Standish","doi":"10.1093/jopedu/qhad008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This paper sets out to consider what is probably the most widely known of the writings of Paul Hirst, ‘Liberal Education and the Nature of Knowledge’. It examines the central concept of the ‘forms’ and goes on to explore the provenance of the ideas he develops in this paper, exposing diversity and some tension between these. At the end it offers some brief suggestions regarding the prospects for the idea of a liberal education today in the light of Hirst’s views.","PeriodicalId":47223,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhad008","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper sets out to consider what is probably the most widely known of the writings of Paul Hirst, ‘Liberal Education and the Nature of Knowledge’. It examines the central concept of the ‘forms’ and goes on to explore the provenance of the ideas he develops in this paper, exposing diversity and some tension between these. At the end it offers some brief suggestions regarding the prospects for the idea of a liberal education today in the light of Hirst’s views.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Philosophy of Education publishes articles representing a wide variety of philosophical traditions. They vary from examination of fundamental philosophical issues in their connection with education, to detailed critical engagement with current educational practice or policy from a philosophical point of view. The journal aims to promote rigorous thinking on educational matters and to identify and criticise the ideological forces shaping education. Ethical, political, aesthetic and epistemological dimensions of educational theory are amongst those covered.