Reading R. S. Peters Today (eBook)

Analysis, Ethics, and the Aims of Education

Stefaan E. Cuypers, Christopher Martin (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-4646-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

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 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Journal of Philosophy of Education
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Philosophie • Philosophie der Bildung u. Erziehung • Philosophy • Philosophy of education
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-4646-6 / 1444346466
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-4646-6 / 9781444346466