The Pattern of Educational Theory,1968

The second statement is after K. Goldstein (in Hall C. S. Lindzey G. Theories of Personality. N.Y.: John Wiley and Sons, 1957, 315). The third statement is from the 1936 Encyclical of Pope Pius XI.

Four interesting papers on theory and education are: Adams H. M. “Theory and Practice”. Bereday G. Z. F. Lauwerys J. A. (Eds.). The Year Book of Education. London: Evans Bros., 1957, 181–192; Gowin, D. B. “Can Educational Theory Guide Practice?” Educational Theory, XIII, 1, 1963, 6–12; Newsome, G. L., Jr. “Analytic Philosophy and Theory of Education”. Park, J. (Ed.) Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Education. N.Y.: Macmillan, second edition, 1963, 563–577; Phenix, P. H. “Educational Theory and Inspiration”. Educational Theory, XIII, 1, 1963, 1–5, 64.

Cf. Scheffler I. “Is Education a Discipline?” Walton J. Kuethe J. L. (Eds.) The Discipline of Education. Madison: The Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1963, 60–61.

For evidence confirming this point, vide Cremin L. A. Shannon D. A. Townsend M. E. A History of Teachers College Columbia University. N.Y.: Columbia Univ. Press, 1954; and Smith, S. L. “The Identification and Analysis of Problems Concerning the Study of Education in Australian Universities”, unpublished doctoral thesis, Univ. of Sydney, 1967.

An analysis of this point may be found in Smith, S. L., op. cit., especially Chapters IV and V.

Cf. Belth M. Education as a Discipline. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1965, 5; and Coleman, J., in The Discipline of Education, op. cit., 159.

Adams J. Educational Theories. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1928, 32.

Lauwerys J. A. Holmes B. “Editors' Introduction: Education and Philosophy” The Year Book of Education, op. cit., 6.

A view on current thinking about philosophy and philosophy of education may be found in Smith S. L. “Philosophy of Education in the University”, unpublished B.A. thesis in the Univ. of Sydney, 1964, especially Chapters I, II, III, VI.

Castell A. “Education as a Goad to Philosophy” Educational Theory, XII, 2, 1962, 91–92.

Ausubel D. P. “The Nature of Educational Research” Educational Theory, III, 4, 1953, 318.

Ausubel, op. cit., 319. For other comments on this, vide Hughes P. “Decisions and Curriculum Design” Educational Theory, XII, 3, 1962, 188.

Ausubel op. cit., 317.

Cohen M. R. Nagel E. An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957, 243.

Nagel E. The Structure of Science. N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961, 447.

Coleman J. in The Discipline of Education, op. cit., 159.