Education and Practice Upholding the

This volume explores the distinctiveness of teaching and learning as a human undertaking and the nature and scope of the philosophy of education. An investigation of the distinctiveness of teaching and learning as a human undertaking. Provides fresh thinking on the nature and scope of the philosophy of education. Draws on the original insights of an international group of experts in philosophy and education. Includes an interview on education with Alasdair MacIntyre, together with searching investigations of his views by other contributors.

Joseph Dunne is Senior Lecturer in Education at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, where he co-ordinates the Human Development programme. He is the author of Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgement and the Lure of Technique (1997) and the co-editor of Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy, (2000) and Childhood and its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures (2002).

Pádraig Hogan is Senior Lecturer in Education at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is a former President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He is the author of The Custody and Courtship of Experience: Western Education in Philosophical Perspective (1995), and the editor of Partnership and the Benefits of Learning (1995) and Willingly to School? (1987).

Preface

vii

Notes on Contributors

ix

Introduction

xi

Joseph Dunne

Padraig Hogan

Alasdair MacIntyre on Education: In Dialogue with Joseph Dunne

1

(17)

Alasdair MacIntyre

Joseph Dume

Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life

18

(17)

Padraig Hogan

MacIntyre's Moral Theory and the Possibility of an Aretaic Ethics of Teaching

35

(13)

Christopher Higgins

Teaching as a Practice and a Community of Practice: the Limits of Commonality and the Demands of Diversity

48

(13)

Terence H. McLaughlin

Is the Virtue Approach to Moral Education Viable in a Plural Society?

61

(13)

Katsushige Katayama

Thinking With Each Other: the Peculiar Practice of the University

74

(14)

Richard Smith

MacIntyre: Teaching, Politics and Practice

88

(14)

Kenneth Wain

Rival Conceptions of Practice in Education and Teaching

102

(14)

David Carr

Pursuing the Idea/1 of an Educated Public: Philosophy's Contributions to Radical School Reform

116

(11)

Daniel Vokey

Philosophy and Education

127

(17)

Wilfred Carr

Pulled Up Short: Challenging Self-Understanding as a Focus of Teaching and Learning

144

(15)

Deborah Kerdeman

Is Teaching a Practice?

159

(11)

Nel Noddings

Arguing for Teaching as a Practice: a Reply to Alasdair MacIntyre

170

(17)

Joseph Dunne

Bibliography

187

(7)

Index

194

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