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Up to this point the aims of this book have been primarily descriptive. They have been concerned with giving an account of the distinctive features of individualistic modes of thought, and pointing out the central place which those modes have occupied in the last generation of western educational theory. Analytic and critical comments have been included from time to time, but there has been no organised effort to discuss the logical and epistemological defensibility of individualism, or the consequences of its domination of western social and educational thought and policy. This chapter is devoted to these issues. They will be discussed first in general terms and in the context of a whole society, and later in the specific context of schooling. This strategy will be pursued first with ontological individualism, and then with normative individualism.
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Watt, J. (1989). Limits to Individualism. In: Individualism and Educational Theory. Philosophy and Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2460-4_8
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