Education, Ethics and Experience: Essays in honour of Richard Pring / Edition 1

by Michael Hand, Richard Davies

Overview

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 education, moral seriousness to the nature of educational research.

The twelve essays collected here explore and build on Pring’s treatment of topics that are central to the field of philosophy of education and high on the agenda of education policy-makers. The essays are by no means uncritical: some authors disagree sharply with Pring; others see his arguments as useful but incomplete, in need of addition or amendment. But all acknowledge their intellectual debt to him and recognise him as a giant on whose shoulders they stand.

This book will be a welcome and lively read for educational academics, researchers and students of Educational Studies and Philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138860414
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/16/2015
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Richard Davies is Lecturer in Education at Aberystwyth University.

Table of Contents

Contents

Contributors

1. Introduction

Michael Hand and Richard Davies

2. The influence of Dewey

David Carr

3. Integral education and Pring’s liberal vocationalism

Judith Suissa

4. Why careers education is part of education

Christopher Winch

5. Education for moral seriousness

Michael Hand

6. Pring on privatisation: similar premises, different prognosis

James Tooley

7. The common school, aptitude and autonomy

Robin Barrow

8. Pring’s engagement with sociology of education

Michael Young

9. Common sense and the craft of teaching

Richard Davies

10. The aims and claims of educational research

Alis Oancea

11. Faith schools, the common good and the Muslim tradition

Farid Panjwani

12. External policy referencing in education

Christine Han

13. Reviving teaching for freedom

Hugh Sockett

14. Epilogue

Richard Pring

Name Index

Subject Index