Joseph Dunne / Pádraig Hogan (eds.)

Education and Practice

Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and Learning
Herausgeber: Dunne, Joseph; Hogan, Pádraig

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At a time when schools and universities are under ever-increasing pressure to serve a variety of ends - for example, national prosperity, managerial efficiency, democratic citizenship - are they betraying their proper ends as educational institutions? Might the dominant discourses in terms of which we now think about and develop policies for education not only undermine its integrity but even prevent recognition of this very fact? These fundamental questions are addressed in this book, first in an interview with Alasdair MacIntyre and then in critical responses by leading philosophers of education. In the context of wide-ranging debates about modernity and post-modernity, the volume seeks to reclaim the integrity of education and to reveal the distinctiveness of teaching as a central human practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781405108942
• ISBN-10: 1405108940
• Artikelnr.: 22482607

Autorenporträt

Joseph Dunne is Senior Lecturer in Education at St Patrick's College, Dublin City University, where he co-ordinates the Human Development programme. He is the author of Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgement and the Lure of Technique (1997) and the co-editor of Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy, (2000) and Childhood and its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures (2002). Pádraig Hogan is Senior Lecturer in Education at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is a former President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He is the author of The Custody and Courtship of Experience: Western Education in Philosophical Perspective (1995), and the editor of Partnership and the Benefits of Learning (1995) and Willingly to School? (1987).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Joseph Dunne and Pádraig Hogan.

1. Alasdair MacIntyre on Education: In Dialogue with JosephDunne: Alasdair MacIntyre and Joseph Dunne.

2. Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life: PádraigHogan.

3. MacIntyre: Teaching, Politics and Practice: Kenneth Wain.

4. Is Teaching a Practice?: Nel Noddings.

5. Rival Conceptions of Practice in Education and Teaching:David Carr.

6. Pursuing the Idea/l of an Educated Public: Philosophy'sContributions to Radical School Reform: Daniel Vokey.

7. MacIntyre's Moral Theory and the Possibility of anAretaic Ethics of Teaching: Christopher Higgins.

8. Pulled Up Short: Challenging Self-Understanding as a Focus ofTeaching and Learning: Deborah Kerdeman.

9. Thinking With Each Other: the Peculiar Practice of theUniversity: Richard Smith.

10. Is the Virtue Approach to Moral Education Viable in a PluralSociety?: Katsushige Katayama.

11. Teaching as a Practice and a Community of Practice: theLimits of Commonality and the Demands of Diversity: Terence H.McLaughlin.

12. Philosophy of Education: Wilfred Carr.

13. Arguing for Teaching as a Practice: A Reply to AlasdairMacIntyre: Joseph Dunne.

Bibliography.

Rezensionen

"Brings together the visionary thinking of Alasdair MacIntyre andthe critical skills of some of the finest contemporary philosophersof education. The result: a rare combustion of intelligence,argument and insight. Dunne and Hogan have done a masterful job.This book is highly recommended to anyone interested in thinkingthrough the current crisis in our educational culture."
Richard Kearney, Boston College.