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In the philosophy of education, the concept of indoctrination refers to unethical influencing in a teaching situation. Indoctrination means infiltrating (drilling, inculcating etc.) concepts, attitudes, beliefs and theories into a student’s mind by passing her free and critical deliberation. When—on a general level—we define indoctrination in this way, it is easy to say that the indoctrinative teaching is morally wrong and that teachers or educational institutions should not practise it. The problem is how do we acknowledge indoctrinative teaching? By what criterion do we consider teaching to be a form of indoctrination or to have elements of indoctrination?
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A new perspective to the theory of indoctrination
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This page is a summary of: Habermas and the Problem of Indoctrination, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_325.
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