Higgins, Chris
The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice
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
Keywords: Philosophy of Education, Teaching, professional ethics, philosophy of teaching, teacher motivation, identity, development, virtue theory, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Bernard Williams, Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Author(s)
- Higgins, Chris
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Journal of Philosophy of Education
- Page amount
- 304 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781444346510
- Printed ISBN
- 9781444339307