Robin Barrow's scientific contributions

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Sage Publications (2010). Hardcover £90.00 (ISBN: 9781847874672) Review by Elham Torabian The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Education offers an introduction to philosophical inquiry for those practising or studying education, in a rather innovative fashion. The readers are introduced to the definition of philosophy of education in the early ch...

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... First, such education assumes that there is only one true religion and that therefore all other religions are false or wrong and that adherents of other beliefs will be punished. This form of education, which does not allow students to think or reflect critically about their beliefs, is a kind of indoctrination (Tan 2008) because it limits the students' autonomy and constrains their open-mindedness (Bailey 2010). Barrow and Woods (2006) explain, "the most obvious hallmark of the indoctrinated person is that he has a particular viewpoint, and he will not seriously open his mind to the possibility that viewpoint is mistaken. ...