A Companion to the Philosophy of Education

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Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell (2003)
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_A 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. Written by an international team of leading experts, who are directly engaged with these profound and complex educational problems. Serves as an indispensable guide to the field of philosophy of education

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Knowledge, Truth, and Learning.Jonathan E. Adler
The Judaic Tradition.Hanan A. Alexander & Shmuel Glick
Ethics and the Aims of American Higher Education.Minda Rae Amiran
Sex Education.David Archard
Education and Standards of Living.Christian Barry
Universities in a Fluid Age.Ronald Barnett
Romanticism.Frederick C. Beiser
The Role of Ethics in Professional Education.Norman E. Bowie
Affirmative Action in Higher Education.Bernard Boxill
Educational Equality and Justice.Harry Brighouse
Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art.Nöel Carroll
Postmodernism.David E. Cooper
Introduction.Randall Curren
The Analytical Movement.Randall Curren, Emily Robertson & Paul Hager
The Ethics of Research.Michael Davis
The Measurement of Learning.Andrew Davis
Children's Rights.James G. Dwyer
Multicultural Education.Robert K. Fullinwider
Church, State, and Education.William Galston
Stoicism.Christopher Gill
The Authority and Responsibility to Educate.Amy Gutmann
Moral Education.Graham Haydon
Humanism.Craig Kallendorf
Critical Theory.Douglas Kellner
Inclusion and Justice in Special Education.Robert F. Ladenson
The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium, and Altertumswissenschaft.Wolfgang Mann
Feminism.Jane Roland Martin
The Professor‐Student Relationship and the Regulation of Student Life.Peter J. Markie
The Educational Thought of Augustine.Gareth B. Matthews
Teaching Science.Michael R. Matthews
Religious Education.Gabriel Moran
Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Pedagogical Science.G. Felicitas Munzel
Theories of Teaching and Learning.D. C. Phillips
The Socratic Movement.C. D. C. Reeve
Common Schooling and Educational Choice.Rob Reich
Rousseau, Dewey, and Democracy.Patrick Riley & Jennifer Welchman
Motivation and Classroom Management.Richard Ryan & Martin Lynch
Enlightenment Liberalism.Amy M. Schmitter, Nathan Tarcov & Wendy Donner
Cultivating Reason.Harvey Siegel
Academic Freedom.Robert L. Simon
Teaching Literature.Richard Smith
The Nature and Purposes of Education.Paul Standish
Teaching Elementary Arithmetic through Applications.Mark Steiner
The Ethics of Teaching.Kenneth A. Strike
Education and the Politics of Identity.Yael Tamir
The Capacity to Learn.Carol Wren & Thomas Wren

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