The book I enjoyed reading most this month was Moral Education by Emile Durkheim. His understanding of education as passing on culture, knowledge and values from one generation to the next, as a means of adults taking responsibility not just for children in the short term, but for the survival of civilization, feels urgent a century on from its original publication. This assumption of responsibility makes education not a technical enterprise but a moral imperative and when Durkheim discusses pedagogy, the content of the curriculum or the need for discipline, it is with this moral imperative in mind.
What I read in November
What I read in November
What I read in November
The book I enjoyed reading most this month was Moral Education by Emile Durkheim. His understanding of education as passing on culture, knowledge and values from one generation to the next, as a means of adults taking responsibility not just for children in the short term, but for the survival of civilization, feels urgent a century on from its original publication. This assumption of responsibility makes education not a technical enterprise but a moral imperative and when Durkheim discusses pedagogy, the content of the curriculum or the need for discipline, it is with this moral imperative in mind.