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  1. The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice.Chris Higgins - 2011 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    _The Good Life of Teaching_ extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation, identity, and development. Makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of teaching and also offers new insights into virtue theory and professional ethics Offers fresh and detailed readings of major figures in ethics, including Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams and the practical philosophies of (...)
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  • (2 other versions)The Imperfect Panacea: American Faith in Education, 1865-1990.Henry J. Perkinson - 1991 - McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages.
    This short history of American Education examines our nation's peculiar faith in the power of its schools to solve its various social problems. Focusing mainly on the post Civil War period, it shows how our early public school system was used in an attempt to solve such problems as racial inequality, urban decay, unemployment, and nationalization. It also shows how later problems such as overpopulation, AIDS, environmental pollution, drugs, automobile safety, crime, and cultural discrimination have been put on the school's (...)
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  • The Tact of Teaching: The Meaning of Pedagogical Thoughtfulness.Max van Manen - 2016 - Routledge.
    In The Tact of Teaching bestselling author Max van Manen offers teachers at every stage an original and inspiring interpretation of the notion of pedagogy, one that searches for its roots in the experience of in loco parentis. Using dozens of anecdotes and scenes taken directly from life in classrooms, including many from the often-neglected domain of high school, The Tact of Teaching explicates the meaning of pedagogical moments, the conditions of pedagogy, the relation between pedagogy and politics, the nature (...)
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  • Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study.Dan Clement Lortie - 1977 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Reviews the history of teaching in the United States over three hundred years, and describes aspects of recruitment, organization, and logic particular to the profession.
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  • The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools From the Ground Up.Kieran Egan - 2008 - Yale University Press.
    This engaging book presents a frontal attack on current forms of schooling and a radical rethinking of the whole education process.
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  • Reflecting Where the Action Is: The Selected Works.John Elliott - 2006 - Routledge.
    Professor John Elliott has spent the last 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in Education Research and Action Research. He has contributed over 25 books and 600 articles to the field. In this book, he brings together over 16 of his key writings, in one place. Starting with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of Professor Elliott's career and contextualizes his selection, the chapters cover: · Rethinking Educational Research · Doing (...)
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  • (1 other version)Democracy and education : An introduction to the philosophy of education.John Dewey - 1916 - Mineola, N.Y.: Macmillan. Edited by Nicholas Tampio.
    Dewey's book on Democracy and Education established his credentials in the field of education and once counted as his most important book. It has been re-published in many editions and continuously in print ever since the original publication in 1916.
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  • Open Minded. Working Out the Logic of the Soul.Jonathan Lear - 2001 - Philosophical Quarterly 51 (203):254-257.
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  • Becoming Critical: Education Knowledge and Action Research.Wilfred Carr & Stephen Kemmis - 2003 - Routledge.
    First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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  • The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation.Bruce Wilshire - 1990 - The Personalist Forum 6 (1):87-89.
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  • The practical : A language for curriculum.Joseph J. Schwab - 2004 - In David J. Flinders & Stephen J. Thornton (eds.), The Curriculum Studies Reader. Routledge.
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