Towards Freedom - Research on Education and Human Development Issues

Author: Tu Yanguo
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book is guided by the theory of Marxist human free development, starting from the actualities of Chinese society, education, and human development, it conducts a comparative systematic and in-depth study on the issue of education and human free development: clarifies the meaning of human free development; argues that human free development is an important purpose of education; discusses major issues such as free education vs. compulsory education, free education vs. pragmatic education, freedom and necessity in education, and freedom and authority in education from different dimensions including subject-self relationship, subject-object relationship, and subject-subject relationship, and explores the conditions under which education promotes human free development.