Beschreibung
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 educationalistsBrings clarity to a number of key educational questionsExposes mainstream, orthodox arguments to sympathetic critical scrutiny
Autorenportrait
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.
Inhalt
Notes on Contributors vii
Preface xiPaul Standish
Introduction
Reading R. S. Peters on Education TodayStefaan 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 ConceptsMegan Laverty 24
3 On Education and InitiationMichael Luntley 38
4 Ritual, Imitation and Education in R. S. PetersBryan Warnick 54
5 Transformation and Education: the Voice of the Learner in Peters Concept of TeachingAndrea English 72
II. The Justification of Educational Aims and the Curriculum
6 R. S. Peters Normative Conception of Education and Educational AimsMichael Katz 94
7 On the Worthwhileness of Theoretical ActivitiesMichael Hand 106
8 Why General Education? Peters, Hirst and HistoryJohn White 119
9 The Good, the Worthwhile and the Obligatory: Practical Reason and Moral Universalism in R. S. Peters Conception of EducationChristopher Martin 138
10 Overcoming Social Pathologies in Education: On the Concept of Respect in R. S. Peters and Axel HonnethKrassimir Stojanov 156
III. Aspects of Ethical Development and Moral Education
11 Reason and Virtues: The Paradox of R. S. Peters on Moral EducationGraham Haydon 168
12 Autonomy in R. S. Peters Educational TheoryStefaan E. Cuypers 185
IV. Peters in Context
13 Richard Peters and Valuing AuthenticityMike Degenhardt 205
14 Vision and Elusiveness in Philosophy of Education: R. S. Peters on the Legacy of Michael OakeshottKevin Williams 219
Index 237
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