Sentences with phrase «moral education thinkers»

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The American university aims at a kind of rational autonomy and sees an education in reason as identical to an education in morality; however, it no longer draws upon the reflections of those Enlightenment thinkers on the great tension between moral authority and rational self - sufficiency.

«Critical pedagogy,» a body of education theory represented by the writings of Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Michael Apple, and other leftist - leaning thinkers, takes its cue from the Durkheim quotation above, but it carries the notion of schools as agents of moral instruction and socialization far beyond what Durkheim envisioned and what the public expects.