Reviews
"The philosophy of education encompasses problems from many areas of philosophy & epistemology, philosophy of mind, professional ethics, and the theory of distributive justice, to name just a few & and the essays in this useful volume accurately reflect the field's breadth. Randall Curren has done an excellent job of enlisting accomplished and influential authors as contributors. His Companion will set the standard, both as a teaching tool and as a first source of information, for years to come." George Sher, Rice University"Randall Curren has put together an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of essays on the philosophy of education. It should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary issues or historical figures in the field." Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education, "The philosophy of education encompasses problems from many areas of philosophy epistemology, philosophy of mind, professional ethics, and the theory of distributive justice, to name just a few and the essays in this useful volume accurately reflect the field's breadth. Randall Curren has done an excellent job of enlisting accomplished and influential authors as contributors. His Companion will set the standard, both as a teaching tool and as a first source of information, for years to come." George Sher, Rice University "Randall Curren has put together an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of essays on the philosophy of education. It should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary issues or historical figures in the field." Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education., "The philosophy of education encompasses problems from many areas of philosophy-epistemology, philosophy of mind, professional ethics, and the theory of distributive justice, to name just a few- and the essays in this useful volume accurately reflect the field's breadth. Randall Curren has done an excellent job of enlisting accomplished and influential authors as contributors. His Companion will set the standard, both as a teaching tool and as a first source of information, for years to come." George Sher, Rice University"Randall Curren has put together an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of essays on the philosophy of education. It should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary issues or historical figures in the field." Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education, "The philosophy of education encompasses problems from many areas of philosophy -epistemology, philosophy of mind, professional ethics, and the theory of distributive justice, to name just a few - and the essays in this useful volume accurately reflect the field's breadth. Randall Curren has done an excellent job of enlisting accomplished and influential authors as contributors. His Companion will set the standard, both as a teaching tool and as a first source of information, for years to come." George Sher, Rice University "Randall Curren has put together an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of essays on the philosophy of education. It should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary issues or historical figures in the field." Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Table of Content
Notes on Contributors ix Preface xvi Introduction 1 Randall Curren Part I Historical and Contemporary Movements 5 1 The Socratic Movement 7 C. D. C. Reeve 2 Stoicism 25 Christopher Gill 3 The Judaic Tradition 33 Hanan A. Alexander and Shmuel Glick 4 The Educational Thought of Augustine 50 Gareth B. Matthews 5 Humanism 62 Craig Kallendorf 6 Enlightenment Liberalism 73 Amy M. Schmitter, Nathan Tarcov, and Wendy Donner 7 Rousseau, Dewey, and Democracy 94 Patrick Riley and Jennifer Welchman 8 Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Pedagogical Science 113 G. Felicitas Munzel 9 Romanticism 130 Frederick C. Beiser 10 The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium, and Altertumswissenschaft 143 Wolfgang Mann 11 Critical Theory 161 Douglas Kellner 12 The Analytical Movement 176 Randall Curren, Emily Robertson, and Paul Hager 13 Feminism 192 Jane Roland Martin 14 Postmodernism 206 David E. Cooper Part II Teaching and Learning 219 15 The Nature and Purposes of Education 221 Paul Standish 16 Theories of Teaching and Learning 232 D. C. Phillips 17 The Capacity to Learn 246 Carol Wren and Thomas Wren 18 Motivation and Classroom Management 260 Richard Ryan and Martin Lynch 19 The Measurement of Learning 272 Andrew Davis 20 Knowledge, Truth, and Learning 285 Jonathan E. Adler 21 Cultivating Reason 305 Harvey Siegel 22 Moral Education 320 Graham Haydon 23 Religious Education 332 Gabriel Moran 24 Teaching Science 342 Michael R. Matthews 25 Teaching Elementary Arithmetic through Applications 354 Mark Steiner 26 Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art 365 Noël Carroll 27 Teaching Literature 384 Richard Smith Part III The Politics and Ethics of Schooling 395 28 The Authority and Responsibility to Educate 397 Amy Gutmann 29 Church, State, and Education 412 William Galston 30 Common Schooling and Educational Choice 430 Rob Reich 31 Children''s Rights 443 James G. Dwyer 32 Education and Standards of Living 456 Christian Barry 33 Educational Equality and Justice 471 Harry Brighouse 34 Multicultural Education 487 Robert K. Fullinwider 35 Education and the Politics of Identity 501 Yael Tamir 36 The Ethics of Teaching 509 Kenneth A. Strike 37 Inclusion and Justice in Special Education 525 Robert F. Ladenson 38 Sex Education 540 David Archard Part IV Higher Education 549 39 Ethics and the Aims of American Higher Education 551 Minda Rae Amiran 40 Universities in a Fluid Age 561 Ronald Barnett 41 Academic Freedom 569 Robert L. Simon 42 The Ethics of Research 583 Michael Davis 43 Affirmative Action in Higher Education 593 Bernard Boxill 44 The Professor-Student Relationship and the Regulation of Student Life 605 Peter J. Markie 45 The Role of Ethics in Professional Education 617 Norman E. Bowie Index 627
