Reading R. S. Peters Today
Analysis, Ethics, and the Aims of Education
Published on 13. September 2011
256 pages
978-1-4443-4646-6 (ISBN)
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Reading R. S. Peters Today: Analysis, Ethics and the Aims ofEducation reassesses British philosopher Richard StanleyPeters' educational writings by examining them against themost recent developments in philosophy and practice.
* Critically reassesses R. S. Peters, a philosopher who had aprofound influence on a generation of educationalists
* Brings clarity to a number of key educational questions
* Exposes mainstream, orthodox arguments to sympathetic criticalscrutiny
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Reading R. S. Peters Today
Analysis, Ethics, and the Aims of Education
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Persons
Stefaan E. Cuypers is Professor of Philosophy at theKatholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Cuypers is the author ofSelf-Identity and Personal Autonomy (2001), co-author ofMoral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education (2008),and an invited contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophyof Education (2009).
Christopher Martin is Senior Lecturer at RoehamptonUniversity, London. While he presently works in philosophy ofeducation, political and moral philosophy, Martin is a formerschool principal in Canada, where he taught in a number of subjectareas such as literature and science, and worked with kindergartenthrough high school level students.
Content
Notes on Contributors vii
Preface xi
Paul Standish
Introduction
Reading R. S. Peters on Education Today
Stefaan E. Cuypers and Christopher Martin 1
I. The Conceptual Analysis of Education and Teaching
1 Was Peters Nearly Right About Education?
Robin Barrow 6
2 Learning Our Concepts
Megan Laverty 24
3 On Education and Initiation
Michael Luntley 38
4 Ritual, Imitation and Education in R. S. Peters
Bryan Warnick 54
5 Transformation and Education: the Voice of the Learner inPeters' Concept of Teaching
Andrea English 72
II. The Justification of Educational Aims and theCurriculum
6 R. S. Peters' Normative Conception of Education andEducational Aims
Michael Katz 94
7 On the Worthwhileness of Theoretical Activities
Michael Hand 106
8 Why General Education? Peters, Hirst and History
John White 119
9 The Good, the Worthwhile and the Obligatory: Practical Reasonand Moral Universalism in R. S. Peters' Conception ofEducation
Christopher Martin 138
10 Overcoming Social Pathologies in Education: On the Concept ofRespect in R. S. Peters and Axel Honneth
Krassimir Stojanov 156
III. Aspects of Ethical Development and MoralEducation
11 Reason and Virtues: The Paradox of R. S. Peters on MoralEducation
Graham Haydon 168
12 Autonomy in R. S. Peters' Educational Theory
Stefaan E. Cuypers 185
IV. Peters in Context
13 Richard Peters and Valuing Authenticity
Mike Degenhardt 205
14 Vision and Elusiveness in Philosophy of Education: R. S.Peters on the Legacy of Michael Oakeshott
Kevin Williams 219
Index 237
