Companion to the Philosophy of Education

Randall Curren is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education (2000) and other works in the philosophy of education, ethics, ancient Greek philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. He is also the editor of Philosophy of Education: An Anthology (2006), and co-editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education.

• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xviIntroduction 1Randall CurrenPart I Historical and Contemporary Movements 51 The Socratic Movement 7C. D. C. Reeve2 Stoicism 25Christopher Gill3 The Judaic Tradition 33Hanan A. Alexander and Shmuel Glick4 The Educational Thought of Augustine 50Gareth B. Matthews5 Humanism 62Craig Kallendorf6 Enlightenment Liberalism 73Amy M. Schmitter, Nathan Tarcov, and Wendy Donner7 Rousseau, Dewey, and Democracy 94Patrick Riley and Jennifer Welchman8 Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Pedagogical Science 113G. Felicitas Munzel9 Romanticism 130Frederick C. Beiser10 The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium, and Altertumswissenschaft 143Wolfgang Mann11 Critical Theory 161Douglas Kellner12 The Analytical Movement 176Randall Curren, Emily Robertson, and Paul Hager13 Feminism 192Jane Roland Martin14 Postmodernism 206David E. CooperPart II Teaching and Learning 21915 The Nature and Purposes of Education 221Paul Standish16 Theories of Teaching and Learning 232D. C. Phillips17 The Capacity to Learn 246Carol Wren and Thomas Wren18 Motivation and Classroom Management 260Richard Ryan and Martin Lynch19 The Measurement of Learning 272Andrew Davis20 Knowledge, Truth, and Learning 285Jonathan E. Adler21 Cultivating Reason 305Harvey Siegel22 Moral Education 320Graham Haydon23 Religious Education 332Gabriel Moran24 Teaching Science 342Michael R. Matthews25 Teaching Elementary Arithmetic through Applications 354Mark Steiner26 Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art 365Noël Carroll27 Teaching Literature 384Richard SmithPart III The Politics and Ethics of Schooling 39528 The Authority and Responsibility to Educate 397Amy Gutmann29 Church, State, and Education 412William Galston30 Common Schooling and Educational Choice 430Rob Reich31 Children’s Rights 443James G. Dwyer32 Education and Standards of Living 456Christian Barry33 Educational Equality and Justice 471Harry Brighouse34 Multicultural Education 487Robert K. Fullinwider35 Education and the Politics of Identity 501Yael Tamir36 The Ethics of Teaching 509Kenneth A. Strike37 Inclusion and Justice in Special Education 525Robert F. Ladenson38 Sex Education 540David ArchardPart IV Higher Education 54939 Ethics and the Aims of American Higher Education 551Minda Rae Amiran40 Universities in a Fluid Age 561Ronald Barnett41 Academic Freedom 569Robert L. Simon42 The Ethics of Research 583Michael Davis43 Affirmative Action in Higher Education 593Bernard Boxill44 The Professor–Student Relationship and the Regulation of Student Life 605Peter J. Markie45 The Role of Ethics in Professional Education 617Norman E. BowieIndex 627

"The philosophy of education encompasses problems from many areas of philosophy –epistemology, philosophy of mind, professional ethics, and the theory of distributive justice, to name just a few – and the essays in this useful volume accurately reflect the field's breadth. Randall Curren has done an excellent job of enlisting accomplished and influential authors as contributors. His Companion will set the standard, both as a teaching tool and as a first source of information, for years to come." George Sher, Rice University "Randall Curren has put together an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of essays on the philosophy of education. It should be of value to anyone interested in contemporary issues or historical figures in the field." Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education