1st Edition

Education, Ethics and Experience Essays in honour of Richard Pring

Edited By Michael Hand, Richard Davies Copyright 2016
180 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

Education, Ethics and Experience is a collection of original philosophical essays celebrating the work of one of the most influential philosophers of education of the last 40 years. Richard Pring’s substantial body of work has addressed topics ranging from curriculum integration to the comprehensive ideal, vocational education to faith schools, professional development to the privatisation of... Read more

Contents

 

Contributors

  1. Introduction
  2. Michael Hand and Richard Davies

  3. The influence of Dewey
  4. David Carr

  5. Integral education and Pring’s liberal vocationalism
  6. Judith Suissa

  7. Why careers education is part of education
  8. Christopher Winch

  9. Education for moral seriousness
  10. Michael Hand

  11. Pring on privatisation: similar premises, different prognosis
  12. James Tooley

  13. The common school, aptitude and autonomy
  14. Robin Barrow

  15. Pring’s engagement with sociology of education
  16. Michael Young

  17. Common sense and the craft of teaching
  18. Richard Davies

  19. The aims and claims of educational research
  20. Alis Oancea

  21. Faith schools, the common good and the Muslim tradition
  22. Farid Panjwani

  23. External policy referencing in education
  24. Christine Han

  25. Reviving teaching for freedom
  26. Hugh Sockett

  27. Epilogue

Richard Pring

Name Index

Subject Index

Biography

Michael Hand is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Birmingham.

Richard Davies is Lecturer in Education at Aberystwyth University.