The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional PracticeThe 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.
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Contents
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MacIntyres Challenge to Applied Ethics | 47 |
Arendts Phenomenology of Practical Life | 85 |
Dewey and Gadamer on Practical Wisdom | 111 |
Pedagogy and the Paradox of SelfInterest | 145 |
The Practice of Teaching and the Institution of School | 177 |
Teaching as Endless Rehearsal and Cultural Elaboration | 205 |
Contents | 241 |
References | 283 |
Index | 305 |
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