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Title: Education - an impossible practice?
Author(s): Edwards, Richard
Keywords: fallibility
ethic of responsibility
educational theory
conditionality
Education Philosophy
Issue Date: 2008
Date Deposited: 20-Mar-2009
Citation: Edwards R (2008) Education - an impossible practice?. Scottish Educational Review, 40 (1), pp. 4-11. http://www.ser.stir.ac.uk/pdf/109.pdf
Abstract: This article explores theoretically the argument that education is an impossible practice as it cannot mandate the future. The significance of this is that educational practice needs to be developed through the values of fallibility, conditionality and responsibility.
URL: http://www.ser.stir.ac.uk/pdf/109.pdf
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