Education in Morality (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education)

Offering a variety of perspectives on some of the most fundamental questions about moral education the volume is written in the belief that philosophy has an important contribution to make in bringing about a clearer understanding of the task of moral education. There is an international team of contributors including both philosophers and educationalists. These include; David Best, Brian Crittenden, Paul Hirst, Ruth Jonathon, John Kekes, Will Kymlicka, Alasdair MacIntyre and Amelie Oksenberg Rorty.

J. Mark Halstead is Reader in Moral Education at the University of Ply[1]mouth and Director of the Centre for Research into Moral, Spiritual and Cultural Understanding and Education (RIMSCUE Centre). A former school-teacher and journalist, he has written several books on values in education. Terence H. McLaughlin is University Lecturer in Education at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge, where he is Director of Studies of Philosophy. He has written on many areas of the philosophy of education, and is currently the Vice-Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.