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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to philosophical thinking about education. * Offers a state-of-the-art account of current and controversial issues in education, including issues pertaining to multiculturalism, special education, sex education, and academic freedom.
Trade Review "The philosophy of education encompasses problems from many areas of philosophy –epistemology, philosophy of mind, professional ethics, and the theory of distributive justice, to name just a few – and the essays in this useful volume accurately reflect the field's breadth. Randall Curren has done an excellent job of enlisting accomplished and influential authors as contributors. His Companion will set the standard, both as a teaching tool and as a first source of information, for years to come." George Sher, Rice University
"Randall Curren has put together an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of essays on the philosophy of education. It should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary issues or historical figures in the field." Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix
Preface xvi
Introduction 1
Randall Curren
Part I Historical and Contemporary Movements 5
1 The Socratic Movement 7
C. D. C. Reeve
2 Stoicism 25
Christopher Gill
3 The Judaic Tradition 33
Hanan A. Alexander and Shmuel Glick
4 The Educational Thought of Augustine 50
Gareth B. Matthews
5 Humanism 62
Craig Kallendorf
6 Enlightenment Liberalism 73
Amy M. Schmitter, Nathan Tarcov, and Wendy Donner
7 Rousseau, Dewey, and Democracy 94
Patrick Riley and Jennifer Welchman
8 Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Pedagogical Science 113
G. Felicitas Munzel
9 Romanticism 130
Frederick C. Beiser
10 The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium, and Altertumswissenschaft 143
Wolfgang Mann
11 Critical Theory 161
Douglas Kellner
12 The Analytical Movement 176
Randall Curren, Emily Robertson, and Paul Hager
13 Feminism 192
Jane Roland Martin
14 Postmodernism 206
David E. Cooper
Part II Teaching and Learning 219
15 The Nature and Purposes of Education 221
Paul Standish
16 Theories of Teaching and Learning 232
D. C. Phillips
17 The Capacity to Learn 246
Carol Wren and Thomas Wren
18 Motivation and Classroom Management 260
Richard Ryan and Martin Lynch
19 The Measurement of Learning 272
Andrew Davis
20 Knowledge, Truth, and Learning 285
Jonathan E. Adler
21 Cultivating Reason 305
Harvey Siegel
22 Moral Education 320
Graham Haydon
23 Religious Education 332
Gabriel Moran
24 Teaching Science 342
Michael R. Matthews
25 Teaching Elementary Arithmetic through Applications 354
Mark Steiner
26 Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art 365
Noël Carroll
27 Teaching Literature 384
Richard Smith
Part III The Politics and Ethics of Schooling 395
28 The Authority and Responsibility to Educate 397
Amy Gutmann
29 Church, State, and Education 412
William Galston
30 Common Schooling and Educational Choice 430
Rob Reich
31 Children’s Rights 443
James G. Dwyer
32 Education and Standards of Living 456
Christian Barry
33 Educational Equality and Justice 471
Harry Brighouse
34 Multicultural Education 487
Robert K. Fullinwider
35 Education and the Politics of Identity 501
Yael Tamir
36 The Ethics of Teaching 509
Kenneth A. Strike
37 Inclusion and Justice in Special Education 525
Robert F. Ladenson
38 Sex Education 540
David Archard
Part IV Higher Education 549
39 Ethics and the Aims of American Higher Education 551
Minda Rae Amiran
40 Universities in a Fluid Age 561
Ronald Barnett
41 Academic Freedom 569
Robert L. Simon
42 The Ethics of Research 583
Michael Davis
43 Affirmative Action in Higher Education 593
Bernard Boxill
44 The Professor–Student Relationship and the Regulation of Student Life 605
Peter J. Markie
45 The Role of Ethics in Professional Education 617
Norman E. Bowie
Index 627
