Leaders in philosophy of education : : intellectual self-portraits / / edited by Leonard J. Waks ; foreword by Jane Roland Martin.

Since the 1960s we have witnessed the development of philosophy of education as a vital intellectual field. Beginning with the work of Israel Scheffler at Harvard, and spreading rapidly to the United Kingdom under the influence of R.S. Peters and Paul Hirst at the London Institute of Education, anal...

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Superior document:Leaders in Educational Studies
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]
2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Leaders in educational studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Leonard J. Waks
  • Introduction / Leonard J. Waks
  • Inquiries about Inquiry / Sharon Bailin
  • “Or What’s a Heaven For?” / Robin Barrow
  • Practical Reason, Moral Virtue and Professionalism in Teaching / David Carr
  • The Marketplace of Ideas Is Out of Everything but Irony / Kieran Egan
  • The Construction of a Social Philosopher of Education / Walter Feinberg
  • In Search of Agency for Classroom Teachers / Gary D Fenstermacher
  • The Education of One Philosopher’s Eros / Jim Garrison
  • Philosophy for the Fun of It / Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon
  • In Pursuit of Reason / Paul H. Hirst
  • It’s Not on the List / Jane Roland Martin
  • A Way of Life / Nel Noddings
  • Academic Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception / Michael A. Peters
  • Blind Variation and Selective Retention / Hugh G. Petrie
  • The Development of a Disillusionist / D.C. Phillips
  • Fides Quaerens Intellectum / Richard Pring
  • The Value of Reason / Emily Robertson
  • The Road Taken / Francis Schrag
  • In Search of Reasons / Harvey Siegel
  • The Journey of a Teacher / Jonas F. Soltis
  • Confessions of a Sublimated Cleric / Kenneth A. Strike
  • The Making of a Schooling and Technology Skeptic / Leonard J. Waks
  • The Centrality of Well-Being / John White
  • From Female Anatomy to Civic Virtues / Patricia White
  • Complexity, Contestation and Engagement / Christopher Winch
  • Remembering Tom Green / Emily Robertson
  • Philosophy of Education in the UK / Paul H. Hirst.