Education and Practice Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and Learning

by Dunne, Joseph; Hogan, Pá; draig

• ISBN13: 9781405108942
• ISBN10: 1405108940
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction	xi
Joseph Dunne
Padraig Hogan
Alasdair MacIntyre on Education: In Dialogue with Joseph Dunne	1	(17)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Joseph Dume
Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life	18	(17)
Padraig Hogan
MacIntyre's Moral Theory and the Possibility of an Aretaic Ethics of Teaching	35	(13)
Christopher Higgins
Teaching as a Practice and a Community of Practice: the Limits of Commonality and the Demands of Diversity	48	(13)
Terence H. McLaughlin
Is the Virtue Approach to Moral Education Viable in a Plural Society?	61	(13)
Katsushige Katayama
Thinking With Each Other: the Peculiar Practice of the University	74	(14)
Richard Smith
MacIntyre: Teaching, Politics and Practice	88	(14)
Kenneth Wain
Rival Conceptions of Practice in Education and Teaching	102	(14)
David Carr
Pursuing the Idea/1 of an Educated Public: Philosophy's Contributions to Radical School Reform	116	(11)
Daniel Vokey
Philosophy and Education	127	(17)
Wilfred Carr
Pulled Up Short: Challenging Self-Understanding as a Focus of Teaching and Learning	144	(15)
Deborah Kerdeman
Is Teaching a Practice?	159	(11)
Nel Noddings
Arguing for Teaching as a Practice: a Reply to Alasdair MacIntyre	170	(17)
Joseph Dunne
Bibliography	187	(7)
Index	194