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Reading R. S. Peters Today:

Analysis, Ethics, and the Aims of Education (Google eBook)
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Stefaan E. Cuypers, Christopher Martin
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John Wiley & Sons, Sep 13, 2011 - Education - 256 pages
Reading R. S. Peters Today: Analysis, Ethics and the Aims of Education reassesses British philosopher Richard Stanley Peters’ educational writings by examining them against the most recent developments in philosophy and practice.
  • Critically reassesses R. S. Peters, a philosopher who had a profound influence on a generation of educationalists
  • Brings clarity to a number of key educational questions
  • Exposes mainstream, orthodox arguments to sympathetic critical scrutiny
  

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Contents

Notes on Contributors
1991
Was Peters Nearly Right About
Learning Our Concepts
Notes
Ritual Imitation and Education in R
Transformation and Education The Voice
R S Peters Normative Conception
On the Worthwhileness of Theoretical
References
Overcoming Social Pathologies
Peters Paradox of Moral Education
Notes
Autonomy in R S Peters Educational
Richard Peters and Valuing Authenticity
Vision and Elusiveness in Philosophy
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Why General Education? Peters Hirst

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About the author (2011)

Stefaan E. Cuypers is Professor of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Cuypers is the author of Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy (2001), co-author of Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education (2008), and an invited contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education (2009).

Christopher Martin is Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, London. While he presently works in philosophy of education, political and moral philosophy, Martin is a former school principal in Canada, where he taught in a number of subject areas such as literature and science, and worked with kindergarten through high school level students.

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