Values education and technology : the ideology of dispossession / Peter C. Emberley.

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He argues that the aim of education is to produce a character that does not allow reason to become merely a faculty of shrewd calculation and technical expertise.

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Emberley analyzes and evaluates three models of values education: values clarification, Kohlberg's moral developmental approach, and values analysis. He finds these inadequate as models. Emberley argues that clues to a better approach, and to a more promising proposal on the nature and purpose of education itself, are found in the thought of Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin. One major thesis of the book is that the dynamic that powers one or another of these models also supports technological consciousness. For example, the value analysis approach treats the person as autonomous will; so does technological consciousness, which regards technology as a way of creating and imposing order, enabling people to gain control over their own destiny. Graduate, faculty. J. W. Meiland; University of Michigan