Parents and the plurality of educational aims
Event
Parents and the plurality of educational aims
Thursday 20 February, 2025 – Thursday 20 February, 20251:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Online
Part of the School of Education Research Seminar Series 2024-25.
About the seminar
In this seminar, Dr Paul McLaughlin debates whether there is a single educational aim (instrumental or intrinsic). Indeed, a convincing argument can be made that there is in fact a plurality of more or less justifiable and potentially conflicting educational aims.
Paul evaluates the plurality of educational aims from the parental perspective. He does so in the belief that parents are powerful educational stakeholders in relation to their children, but also (economically) as consumers and (politically) as citizens. Paul interprets educational aims from this perspective in the interests of provoking discussion around contemporary educational norms.
About the speakers
Dr Paul McLaughlin is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, Bath Spa University. He has held positions in philosophy, politics and education in Ireland, Poland and Estonia. He works at the intersection of political philosophy and the philosophy of education and is the author of Anarchism and Authority (Routledge, 2016) and Radicalism: A Philosophical Study (Palgrave, 2012).