Description

This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers areÿ still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Partÿ1 examines those ideas of the Idealists, especially T. H. Green, which had most bearing on the educational reforms carried out between 1870 and the 1920s and traces their connection with the philosophy and educational theory of Hegel and other post-Kantians. Partÿ2 is an historical survey, concentrating on the innovations in the organization and contents of education in England and Wales brought about by the administrators and educationistsÿeducated in philosophical idealism. Part 3 considersÿwhat relevance the philosophical and practical ideas of this interconnected group of reformers have to education today.