Suissa, J; (2015) Integral education and Pring’s liberal vocationalism. In: Education, Ethics and Experience: Essays in Honour of Richard Pring. (pp. 23-35). Routledge: London, UK.

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A central strand in Richard Pring's philosophical work has the rejection of the 'false dualism' between the liberal and the vocational. In examining dualism, Pring's work has oriented just to the world of academic philosophy of education, but to the world of educational policy and practice, particularly in relation to shifts and innovations in the area of vocational education and training. The idea of integral education was a central feature of the writings of leading nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century anarchist thinkers, and the educational experiments associated with the anarchist tradition. The anarchist ideal of integral education for all was an ideal of a 'respect for labour, reason, equality and freedom' intended just to articulate a philosophy of education that reflects a conception of the person, but to challenge a political and economic reality in which a whole class of children were excluded from academic education and condemned to a life of labour under conditions that threatened individual freedom and dignity.

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