1st Edition

Learning to be Human The Educational Legacy of John Macmurray

Edited By Michael Fielding Copyright 2015
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

The educational writings of John Macmurray, one of the finest 20 th century philosophers of his generation, have a special relevance for us today. In similar circumstances of international crisis he argued for the central importance of education addressing fundamental issues of human purpose - how we lead good lives together, the emphasis on wisdom rather than knowledge alone, the advancement of... Read more

1. Introduction Michael Fielding  2. Learning to be Human, with introduction by Michael Fielding John Macmurray  3. Education as if people matter: John Macmurray, community and the struggle for democracy Michael Fielding  4. John Macmurray’s Learning to Live and the new media, 1931–1949: learning for labour or leisure? Peter Cunningham  5. Personal, relational and beautiful: education, technologies and John Macmurray’s philosophy Keri Facer  6. The personal world of schooling: John Macmurray and schools as households Julian Stern  7. Putting persons back into education Richard Pring  8. Love and teaching: renewing a common world Raimond Gaita  9. The caring relation in teaching Nel Noddings

Biography

Michael Fielding is Emeritus Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK, and taught for 19 years in some of the UK’s pioneer radical comprehensive schools and for a similar period and with identical commitments at the universities of Cambridge, London and Sussex. His latest book, with Peter Moss, is Radical Education and the Common School (2011).