The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education

by Philip Kitcher

Book Overview

Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality education available to all, and argues that these reforms are economically sustainable. Kitcher build his arguments from three broad goals of education as an institution: career development and professionalization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197799337
• ISBN13: 9780197799338
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"