Educating for Well-Being and Autonomy

Autor/inn/en	Cuypers, Stefaan E.; Haji, Ishtiyaque
Titel	Educating for Well-Being and Autonomy
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Education, 6 (2008) 1, S.71-93 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-8785
DOI	10.1177/1477878507086731
Schlagwörter	Freedom; Educational Philosophy; Ethical Instruction; Well Being; Student Empowerment; Personal Autonomy; Child Development; Role of Education; Moral Development; Ethics; Democracy; Political Attitudes; Social Values + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freiheit; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Studienberechtigung; Individuelle Autonomie; Kindesentwicklung; Bildungsauftrag; Moralische Entwicklung; Ethik; Demokratie; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Sozialer Wert
Abstract	Liberals champion the view that promoting autonomy--seeing to it that our children develop into individuals who are self-governing in the conduct of their lives--is a vital aim of education, though one generally accredited as being subsidiary to well-being. Our prime goal in this article is to provide a partial validation of this liberal ideal against the backdrop of a freedom-sensitive attitudinal hedonism--our favored life-ranking axiology. We propose that there is a pivotal connection between the concept of maximizing well-being and another concept central in the philosophy of education and in the literature on free agency: the concept of our springs of action, such as our desires or beliefs, being "truly our own" or, alternatively, autonomous. We suggest that it is the freedom that moral responsibility requires that bridges the overarching aim of securing well-being, on the one hand, and the subsidiary aim of promoting autonomy, on the other. (Contains 27 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10