Cultural foundations of education: an interdisciplinary exploration

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brameld, Theodore, 1904-1987
Other Authors: Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960 (writer of foreword)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, [1957]
New York, Harper [1957]
Edition:[1st ed.]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Appendix: Philosophical Anthropology: The Educational Significance of Ernst Cassirer
  • Chapter 6: Cultural Order as Temporal
  • Time and History in Culture-Theory
  • Classical Evolutionism
  • Contemporary Evolutionism and the Culture-History School
  • Cultural Order as History-and-Science
  • Recent Philosophies of Cultural History: Methodological
  • Recent Philosophies of Cultural History: Substantive
  • The Temporal Order of Culture: Opportunities for Education
  • Part III: The Problem of Human Process
  • Chapter 7: Cultural Process: Preview of the Problem
  • Chapter 8: Some Major Concepts of Cultural Process
  • Discovery and Invention
  • Diffusion
  • Acculturation
  • Assimilation
  • Innovation
  • Focus
  • Crisis
  • Causation and Prediction
  • Education and the Cultural Process: Relations of Theory to Practice
  • Chapter 9: Personality in Cultural Process
  • The Culture-and-Personality Frontier
  • Theories of Learning and Personality
  • The Concept of Personality: Recent Emphases
  • Modal Personality, National Character, and Cultural Change
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  • Part I: The Persistent Problems of Education in Cultural Perspective
  • Chapter 1: Culture
  • The Context of Education
  • The Need for Re-examination
  • Introduction to the Meaning of Culture
  • The Importance of Values
  • Chapter 2: Three Great problems of Education and Culture
  • The Problem of Human Order
  • The Problem of Human Process
  • The Problem of Human Goals
  • Guiding Generalizations
  • Part II: The Problem of Human Order
  • Chapter 3: Cultural Order
  • Preview of the Problem
  • Chapter 4: Cultural Order as Reality
  • The Superorganic Conception of Culture
  • The Operational Approach to Culture
  • The Philosophic Critique of Culture
  • The Modern Dilemma of Cultural Reality
  • The Problem of Cultural Reality: Its Educational Import
  • Chapter 5: Cultural Order as Spatial
  • The Horizontal-Vertical Model
  • Cultural Order as Horizontal
  • Cultural Order as Vertical
  • Culture-Configuration as Ways of Life
  • Spatial Order in Education-and-Culture
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  • Problems of Culture-and-Personality in the Educative Process
  • Part IV: The Problem of Human Goals
  • Chapter 10: Cultural Goals: Preview of the Problem
  • Chapter 11: Human Goals as Relative and Universal
  • The Case for Cultural Relativism
  • The Case for Cultural Universalism
  • Recent Philosophic Approaches
  • Cultural Relativism and Universalism: The Responsibility of Education
  • Chapter 12: Human Freedom as Cultural Goal
  • Problems of Meaning
  • Definitions of Cultural Value
  • Freedom and the Normative Science of Culture
  • The Concepts of Progress and Ideology
  • Toward a Goal-Centered Education-and-Culture
  • Part V: Order, Process, and Goals
  • A Selective Recapitulation
  • Chapter 13: The Study of Culture in Teacher Education
  • A Time of Conflict
  • A Framework for Professional Training
  • The First Part: General Education
  • The Second Part: Knowledge
  • The Third Part: Practice
  • The Fourth Part: Unifying Theory
  • Honorific and Scientific Culture
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