Reading R. S. Peters Today - Analysis, Ethics, and the Aims of Education
Published on 8. September 2011
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256 pages
978-1-4443-4649-7 (ISBN)
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Reading R. S. Peters Today: Analysis, Ethics and the Aims of Education reassesses British philosopher Richard Stanley Peters' educational writings by examining them against the most recent developments in philosophy and practice. Critically reassesses R. S. Peters, a philosopher who had a profound influence on a generation of educationalists Brings clarity to a number of key educational questions Exposes mainstream, orthodox arguments to sympathetic critical scrutiny
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-4649-7 (9781444346497)
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Persons
Stefaan E. Cuypers is Professor of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Cuypers is the author of Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy (2001), co-author of Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education (2008), and an invited contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education (2009). Christopher Martin is Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, London. While he presently works in philosophy of education, political and moral philosophy, Martin is a former school principal in Canada, where he taught in a number of subject areas such as literature and science, and worked with kindergarten through 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 in Peters' Concept of Teaching Andrea English 72 II. The Justification of Educational Aims and the Curriculum 6 R. S. Peters' Normative Conception of Education and Educational 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 Reason and Moral Universalism in R. S. Peters' Conception of Education Christopher Martin 138 10 Overcoming Social Pathologies in Education: On the Concept of Respect in R. S. Peters and Axel Honneth Krassimir Stojanov 156 III. Aspects of Ethical Development and Moral Education 11 Reason and Virtues: The Paradox of R. S. Peters on Moral Education 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