The Ethics of Teaching

Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I the Philosophy of Education: Classic readings on the Purpose of Education: Democracy and educational administration, John Dewey; The justification of education, R.S. Peters; What is teaching?, Paul H. Hirst; Learning and teaching, Michael Oakeshott. Contemporary Readings on the Purpose of Education: Colleges must reconstruct the unity of knowledge, Vartan Gregorian; The true scholar, Robert N. Bellah; The corporate university and the politics of education, Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux; Re-education of humankind: globalizing the curriculum and teaching international ethics for the new century, Roseann Runte. Part II The Process of Education: Critical Thinking: A concept of 'critical thinking', Robert H. Ennis; Critical thinking and the 'trivial pursuit' theory of knowledge, John E. McPeck; Format effects on critical thinking test performance, Stephen P. Norris. Aesthetics: The something more, Sharon Bailin; Social vision and the dance of life, Maxime Green. Part III Ethics and Social Responsibility: Toward a philosophy of moral education, William K. Frankena; Introducing ethics into every department: an overview, Michael Boylan and James A. Donahue; The primacy of political education, Amy Gutmann; Access to the university and the problem of racial inequality, Derek Bok; Liberal civic education and religious fundamentalism: the case of God v. John Rawls, Stephen Macedo; Justice and the threshold of educational equality, Randall R. Curren); Non-exclusion is not the same as inclusion: a response to Curren, Kenneth R. Howe; Human rights and academic freedom, Alan Gewirth. Part IV Students and Teachers: Cheating and Plagiarism: In other (people's) words: plagiarism by university students - literature and lessons, Chris Park; Academic dishonesty: a plague on our profession, Kenneth C. Petress (2003); Dishonesty in academic environments: the influence of peer reporting requirements, Donald L. McCabe, Linda Klebe Trev