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Title: The evolution of philosophy of education within educational studies

By: James R. Muir

Date: 1996

Abstract: Although educationists have also begun to wonder whether arguments might be made which will support their advocacy of a more historically informed approach to educational philosophy, such arguments were made and accepted more than a hundred years ago and have been refined and reiterated, over the past fifty years in particular, by classicists, political philosophers, historians of ideas and others devoted to educational scholarship. A return to the fundamental educational questions, firmly grounded in serious study of the philosophical traditions comprised of attempts to formulate and answer them, is probably the only means by which a worthwhile future for our discipline may be secured.