Do Teachers Care About Truth?

Download or read book Do Teachers Care About Truth? written by E. P. Brandon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1987, examines the notion of truth and then discusses knowledge and the way in which much of our knowledge revises or rejects the common-sense we start from. The author argues that our knowledge is not as secure as some would like to think and that there are important limits to the possibility for explanation. He shows how values permeate our ordinary thinking and argues against the objectivity of these values, showing the practical consequences of this argument for teaching in schools. This stimulating approach to a fundamental educational issue does not require previous experience of formal philosophy and will be useful to both education students and teachers in schools.