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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.
Contents
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Michael Hand and Richard Davies
The influence of Dewey
David Carr
Integral education and Pring's liberal vocationalism
Judith Suissa
Why careers education is part of education
Christopher Winch
Education for moral seriousness
Michael Hand
Pring on privatisation: similar premises, different prognosis
James Tooley
The common school, aptitude and autonomy
Robin Barrow
Pring's engagement with sociology of education
Michael Young
Common sense and the craft of teaching
Richard Davies
The aims and claims of educational research
Alis Oancea
Faith schools, the common good and the Muslim tradition
Farid Panjwani
External policy referencing in education
Christine Han
Reviving teaching for freedom
Hugh Sockett
Epilogue
Richard Pring
Name Index
Subject Index
