Education and social integration: on basic consensus and the cohesion of society

Authors
Publication date 2002
Journal Educational Theory
Volume | Issue number 52 | 4
Pages (from-to) 381-396
Number of pages 16
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Research Institute of Child Development and Education (RICDE)
Abstract Examines approaches to social integration and its educational implications. Prevailing way of relating education to social integration resting on the thesis of social integration depending on a foundation of shared societal values; Suggestion that social integration cannot be affected by intentionally planned human effort; Reasons why alternative theoretical tradition have limited reception in educational theory.
Document type Article
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