What's the Good of Education?

Joseph Dunne is Cregan Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education at Dublin City University, Ireland.

• Series Editor’s ForewordPrefacePart I: On Learning and Teaching: Interlocutors and Exemplars1. What’s the Good of Education? Narrating a Life in Learning and Teaching2. Beginning in Wonder: Children and Philosophy3. Learning from MacIntyre about Learning: Finding Room for a Second-Person Perspective?4. Figures of the Teacher: Fergal O’Connor and SocratesPart ll: Between Education and Philosophical Anthropology5. Relating Childhood and Adulthood: Growing Up and Growing Down6. Citizenship and Education: A Crisis of the Republic?7. An Intricate Fabric: Understanding the Reasonableness of Practice8. Beyond Sovereignty and Dissolution: The Storied SelfPart III: Limits of Ethics? Questions of Spirit 9. After Philosophy and Religion: Spirituality and Its Counterfeits10. More than Moral? Reading Dependent Rational Animals11. Our Ethical Predicament: Getting to the Heart of A Secular Age12. From Field to Forest: Fullness beyond Flourishing?AcknowledgementsIndex

A challenging and compelling exploration of how education can contribute to a flourishing democracy provided that our classrooms are not hijacked by tech oligarchs and bean counters.