A Companion to the Philosophy of Education

by Curren, Randall

• ISBN13: 9780631228370
• ISBN10: 0631228373
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to the Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to philosophical thinking about education.Written by an international team of leading experts, the volume opens with an authoritative survey of major figures and movements and then explores the most important - and at times controversial - topics of current interest in philosophy of education.Contributors explore such topics as educational testing and measurement, knowledge and truth, critical thinking, intelligence, and learning disabilities. They also address a range of much debated issues in the politics and ethics of schooling, including church-state issues, educational choice, educational justice, equality and standards of living, multiculturalism, the ethics of special education, and sex education. The final section looks at issues in the philosophy and ethics of higher education, including academic freedom, conflicts of academic and economic values, and racial justice.This volume is a vital and comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the philosophy of education.

Author Biography

Randall Curren is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education (2000) and other works in the philosophy of education, ethics, ancient Greek philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. He is also the editor of Philosophy of Education: An Anthology (2006), and co-editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Preface	xvi
Introduction	1	(4)
Randall Curren
Part I Historical and Contemporary Movements	5	(214)
The Socratic Movement	7	(18)
C. D. C. Reeve
Stoicism	25	(8)
Christopher Gill
The Judaic Tradition	33	(17)
Hanan A. Alexander
Shmuel Glick
The Educational Thought of Augustine	50	(12)
Gareth B. Matthews
Humanism	62	(11)
Craig Kallendorf
Enlightenment Liberalism	73	(21)
Amy M. Schmitter
Nathan Tarcov
Wendy Donner
Rousseau, Dewey, and Democracy	94	(19)
Patrick Riley
Jennifer Welchman
Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Pedagogical Science	113	(17)
G. Felicitas Munzel
Romanticism	130	(13)
Frederick C. Beiser
The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium, and Altertumswissenschaft	143	(18)
Wolfgang Mann
Critical Theory	161	(15)
Douglas Kellner
The Analytical Movement	176	(16)
Randall Curren
Emily Robertson
Paul Hager
Feminism	192	(14)
Jane Roland Martin
Postmodernism	206	(13)
David E. Cooper
Part II Teaching and Learning	219	(176)
The Nature and Purposes of Education	221	(11)
Paul Standish
Theories of Teaching and Learning	232	(14)
D. C. Phillips
The Capacity to Learn	246	(14)
Carol Wren
Thomas Wren
Motivation and Classroom Management	260	(12)
Richard Ryan
Martin Lynch
The Measurement of Learning	272	(13)
Andrew Davis
Knowledge, Truth, and Learning	285	(20)
Jonathan E. Adler
Cultivating Reason	305	(15)
Harvey Siegel
Moral Education	320	(12)
Graham Haydon
Religious Education	332	(10)
Gabriel Moran
Teaching Science	342	(12)
Michael R. Matthews
Teaching Elementary Arithmetic through Applications	354	(11)
Mark Steiner
Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art	365	(19)
Noel Carroll
Teaching Literature	384	(11)
Richard Smith
Part III The Politics and Ethics of Schooling	395	(154)
The Authority and Responsibility to Educate	397	(15)
Amy Gutmann
Church, State, and Education	412	(18)
William Galston
Common Schooling and Educational Choice	430	(13)
Rob Reich
Children's Rights	443	(13)
James G. Dwyer
Education and Standards of Living	456	(15)
Christian Barry
Educational Equality and Justice	471	(16)
Harry Brighouse
Multicultural Education	487	(14)
Robert K. Fullinwider
Education and the Politics of Identity	501	(8)
Yael Tamir
The Ethics of Teaching	509	(16)
Kenneth A. Strike
Inclusion and Justice in Special Education	525	(15)
Robert F. Ladenson
Sex Education	540	(9)
David Archard
Part IV Higher Education	549	(78)
Ethics and the Aims of American Higher Education	551	(10)
Minda Rae Amiran
Universities in a Fluid Age	561	(8)
Ronald Barnett
Academic Freedom	569	(14)
Robert L. Simon
The Ethics of Research	583	(10)
Michael Davis
Affirmative Action in Higher Education	593	(12)
Bernard Boxill
The Professor-Student Relationship and the Regulation of Student Life	605	(12)
Peter J. Markie
The Role of Ethics in Professional Education	617	(10)
Norman E. Bowie
Index	627