1. 7.1 AIMS OF EDUCATION Graham Haydon UNIT
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2. OBJECTIVES At the end of this unit you should be able to:
list a variety of actual and possible aims for education
reflect on and formulate your own aims on being a teacher
discuss aims of education with other teachers and with parents.
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3. CONTENT The social and political context of aims Thinking about aims
Why bother with aims?
Making sense of the variety of aims
Justifying aims
Equal aims for everyone?
Aims of the National Curriculum
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4. FURTHER INFORMATION To explore this material further, read:
Haydon, G. (2009) ‘Aims of education’, in S. Capel, M. Leask and T. Turner (eds) Learning to Teach in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience, 5th edn, London: Routledge.
From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

5. FURTHER READING
Brighouse, H. (2006) On Education, Abingdon: Routledge.
Bottery, M. (1990) The Morality of the School, London: Cassell.
Dewey, J. (1916) Democracy and Education, New York: Free Press.
White, J. (2007) What Schools Are For and Why, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (IMPACT series no. 14).
From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009