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An Irish Times Best Book for Summer 2025
In this book Joseph Dunne exposes the damage done by obsession with measurable outcomes in schools and universities. He argues for an education that respects the interpersonal fabric of learning and teaching, and that takes account of difficulties in late modern societies regarding childhood, citizenship, the relative prestige accorded to different kinds of knowledge, and the forging by individuals of a coherent identity across a whole life-course. To ask about good education, he claims, is necessarily to pose the larger question of the human good. Central to the book is a concern to elucidate the kind of practices that can best help persons to pursue this good, a concern that deepens through reflection in the final chapters on the challenges and fulfilments opened by the spiritual dimension of human life. Making his case in a series of inter-related essays, Dunne draws on his decades-long experience in teacher-education, informed by a reading of classical Greek philosophy and of several recent thinkers - including Raimond Gaita, Alasdair MacIntyre, Iris Murdoch and Charles Taylor - who are key conversation partners throughout.
Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Part I: On Learning and Teaching: Interlocutors and Exemplars
1. What's the Good of Education? Narrating a Life in Learning and Teaching
2. Beginning in Wonder: Children and Philosophy
3. Learning from MacIntyre about Learning: Finding Room for a Second-Person Perspective?
4. Figures of the Teacher: Fergal O'Connor and Socrates
Part ll: Between Education and Philosophical Anthropology
5. Relating Childhood and Adulthood: Growing Up and Growing Down
6. Citizenship and Education: A Crisis of the Republic?
7. An Intricate Fabric: Understanding the Reasonableness of Practice
8. Beyond Sovereignty and Dissolution: The Storied Self
Part III: Limits of Ethics? Questions of Spirit
9. After Philosophy and Religion: Spirituality and Its Counterfeits
10. More than Moral? Reading Dependent Rational Animals
11. Our Ethical Predicament: Getting to the Heart of A Secular Age
12. From Field to Forest: Fullness beyond Flourishing?
Acknowledgements
Index
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