The Good Life of Teaching : An Ethics of Professional Practice EPUB
by Chris Higgins
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The Good Life of Teaching extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation, identity, and development.
- Makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of teaching and also offers new insights into virtue theory and professional ethics
- Offers fresh and detailed readings of major figures in ethics, including Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams and the practical philosophies of Hannah Arendt, John Dewey and Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Provides illustrations to assist the reader in visualizing major points, and integrates sources such as film, literature, and teaching memoirs to exemplify arguments in an engaging and accessible way
- Presents a compelling vision of teaching as a reflective practice showing how this requires us to prepare teachers differently
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- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:19/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781444346510
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:19/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781444346510
