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Taylor and Francis Ltd Handbook of Philosophy of Education 1st Edition 2022 Softbound by Curren, Randall
This book features chapters on timely, emerging, and global issues, such as campus speech, racial and linguistic justice in education, climate education, neoliberalism in education, the future of higher education, international educational testing, educational problems of mass migration, and educational justice for working children across the world_x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_It addresses fundamental questions of educational theory and policy, such as the nature of educational justice, the roles of evidence and values in educational decision-making, the basis for prioritizing some educational aims over others, and widely-discussed educational aims such as human flourishing and global citizenship. _x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_The volume reflects important developments on both the epistemic (knowledge-focused) and value-focused (ethical, justice-related, and moral-developmental) wings of philosophy of education, and the ways these come together in important problems of civic life - especially, the polarization of public life and breakdown of public (i.e., shared) knowledge, and questions about how schools can do their jobs in a world in which controversy rages over things that are often matters of strong scientific consensus._x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_In this regard, a particularly valuable aspect of the volume is its attention to the educational and civic importance of both virtues of mind (intellectual or epistemic virtues) and the ways in which epistemic virtues and vices interact with disciplinary knowledge, networks of epistemic trust and reliance, and the ways we teach. Relevant chapters here include ones on Mind, Reason, and Knowledge; Understanding as an Aim of Education; Cultivating Intellectual Virtues; Intellectual Character Education; Free Speech and Education; Democratic Education and the Controversy over Controversial Issues; College Teaching, Indoctrination, and Trust; and Climate, Science, and Sustainability Education._x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_The volume reflects the increasing importance of multidisciplinary approaches in philosophy of education, and the relevance of many subfields of philosophy to philosophical work on education. Multidisciplinary approaches and developments in related subfields of philosophy allow contemporary philosophy of education to address new and important questions in compelling ways. This is evident throughout the volume._x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_The chapters are authored by some of most distinguished philosophers writing on education today, and many of them also bring to their topics deep experience in educational and policy leadership. These authors include: Danielle Allen (a policy thought leader and currently candidate for Governor of Massachusetts), Harry Brighouse (who has done extensive education policy work), Nancy Cartwright (the world's leading philosopher of science and an international thought leader on the uses of social science in public policy), Ann Cudd (Provost at the U of Pittsburgh), Daniel Weinstock (one of Canada's leading public philosophers and contributors to policy debates), Sigal Ben-Porath (who has been consulted extensively by universities across the US when controversies have erupted over free speech), and Yuli Tamir (a former Minister of Education of Israel and university president)._x000D_ _x000D_
Introduction; PART I: FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS; 1. Education for a Challenging World; 2. Civic Learning for the 21st Century: Disentangling the "Thin" and "Thick" Elements of Civic Identity to Support Civic Education; 3. Enabling Everyone to Live Well; 4. Mind, Reason, and Knowledge; 5. Understanding as an Educational Objective; 6. Values and Evidence in Educational Decision-Making; 7. How Should Evidence Inform Educational Policy?; 8. Who Should Make Decisions About Children's Education?; 9. Theorizing Educational Justice; PART II: VIRTUES OF MIND AND CHARACTER; 10. Cultivating Intellectual Virtues; 11. Intellectual Character Education: Some Lessons from Vice Epistemology; 12. The Formation of Expertise; 13. Stoic Lessons for an Uncertain Future; 14. Character Education; PART III: EDUCATION AND JUSTICE; 15. Equal Educational Opportunity: What Should It Mean?; 16. Non-Preparatory Dimensions of Educational Justice; 17. Child Work and Education, a Global Perspective; 18. Educational Problems of Mass Migration; 19. The Political Ethics of Bilingual Education; 20. Global Democratic Educational Justice; 21. Neoliberalism and Education; 22. Racial Domination in Education; 23. The Costs of Upward Mobility; 24. Who Should Pay for Higher Education? An Educational Aims Perspective; 25. Toward a Post-Pandemic Higher Education System; PART IV: EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES; 26. Free Speech and Education; 27. Democratic Education and the Controversy over Controversial Issues; 28. College Teaching, Indoctrination, and Trust; 29. Climate, Science, and Sustainability Education; 30. Is 'Sex Education' an Intelligible Concept?; 31. Racial Identity Formation and Antiracist Education; 32. Discipline and Punishment in Schools; 33. Ability and Ability Grouping; 34. Malignant Accountability, False Promises, and the Future of Education; 35. Burnout, Demoralization, and Racialized Failures to Recognize Teachers as Moral Subjects_x000D_