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This volume explores the distinctiveness of teaching and learning as a human undertaking and the nature and scope of the philosophy of education.
- An investigation of the distinctiveness of teaching and learning as a human undertaking.
- Provides fresh thinking on the nature and scope of the philosophy of education.
- Draws on the original insights of an international group of experts in philosophy and education.
- Includes an interview on education with Alasdair MacIntyre, together with searching investigations of his views by other contributors.
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Book Description:
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..
About the Author:
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).
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- PublisherWiley-Blackwell
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1405108940
- ISBN 13 9781405108942
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
- EditorDunne Joseph, Hogan Pádraig
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