This book provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the nature, theory and practices of the ideas of values education and lifelong learning. Each chapter is written in an accessible style by an international expert in the field. Authors tackle the task of identifying, analysing and addressing the key problems, topics and issues relevant to questions about the nature, purpose and scope of values education and Lifelong Learning that are internationally generalisable.
The many public debates launched by governments on education, such
as Tony Blair's emphasis on "education, education, education" have
nonetheless failed to consider the place of the good society in educational endeavor. The traditional account of education is that it not only
teaches pupils the skills to earn a living, but also teaches a concern
for the welfare of others, a love of the many cultures of learning and
a commitment to the best values of society. Education and the Good
Society seeks to examine these considerations and to restore them to
the center of the educational debate.
Jack Zipes develops a social history of the fairy tale and shows how educated writers purposefully appropriated the oral folk tale in the eighteenth century and made it into a discourse about mores, values, and manners.
