A Companion to the Philosophy of Education

Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 17
Introduction......Page 20
Part I: Historical and Contemporary Movements......Page 24
1 The Socratic Movement......Page 26
2 Stoicism......Page 44
3 The Judaic Tradition......Page 52
4 The Educational Thought of Augustine......Page 69
5 Humanism......Page 81
6 Enlightenment Liberalism......Page 92
7 Rousseau, Dewey, and Democracy......Page 113
8 Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Pedagogical Science......Page 132
9 Romanticism......Page 149
10 The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium, and Altertumswissenschaft......Page 162
11 Critical Theory......Page 180
12 The Analytical Movement......Page 195
13 Feminism......Page 211
14 Postmodernism......Page 225
Part II: Teaching and Learning......Page 238
15 The Nature and Purposes of Education......Page 240
16 Theories of Teaching and Learning......Page 251
17 The Capacity to Learn......Page 265
18 Motivation and Classroom Management......Page 279
19 The Measurement of Learning......Page 291
20 Knowledge, Truth, and Learning......Page 304
21 Cultivating Reason......Page 324
22 Moral Education......Page 339
23 Religious Education......Page 351
24 Teaching Science......Page 361
25 Teaching Elementary Arithmetic through Applications......Page 373
26 Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art......Page 384
27 Teaching Literature......Page 403
Part III: The Politics and Ethics of Schooling......Page 414
28 The Authority and Responsibility to Educate......Page 416
29 Church, State, and Education......Page 431
30 Common Schooling and Educational Choice......Page 449
31 Children's Rights......Page 462
32 Education and Standards of Living......Page 475
33 Educational Equality and Justice......Page 490
34 Multicultural Education......Page 506
35 Education and the Politics of Identity......Page 520
36 The Ethics of Teaching......Page 528
37 Inclusion and Justice in Special Education......Page 544
38 Sex Education......Page 559
Part IV: Higher Education......Page 568
39 Ethics and the Aims of American Higher Education......Page 570
40 Universities in a Fluid Age......Page 580
41 Academic Freedom......Page 588
42 The Ethics of Research......Page 602
43 Affirmative Action in Higher Education......Page 612
44 The Professor–Student Relationship and the Regulation of Student Life......Page 624
45 The Role of Ethics in Professional Education......Page 636
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C......Page 647
D......Page 648
F......Page 649
H......Page 650
L......Page 651
M......Page 652
P......Page 653
R......Page 654
S......Page 655
V......Page 656
Z......Page 657