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Book cover image of Philosophy of Education by Nel Noddings

Authors: Nel Noddings
ISBN-13: 9780813343235, ISBN-10: 0813343232
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westview Press
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Nel Noddings

Nel Noddings is Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. She has taught at the elementary, junior high, senior high, and college levels and has served as acting dean of the School of Education at Stanford University. In addition to many articles and reviews on a broad range of educational issues, her works include Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Women and Evil, The Challenge to Care in Schools, Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief, Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy, Educating Moral People, Happiness and Education, Educating Citizens for Global Awareness, and Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach.

Book Synopsis

An introduction to major topics of philosophy as they are relevant to problems of current interest in education, now with a new chapter on “Problems of School Reform.”

	List of Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Philosophy of Education Before the Twentieth Century	4
	Socrates and Plato	6
	Aristotle	12
	Rousseau	14
	Pestalozzi, Herbart, and Froebel	18
2	The Philosophical and Educational Thought of John Dewey	23
	Dewey's Philosophical Orientation	24
	The Meaning and Aims of Education	25
	Dewey's Psychology	28
	Dewey's Theory of Knowledge	31
	Democracy and Education	33
	The Place of Subject Matter	37
	Dewey Today: An Assessment	38
3	Analytic Philosophy	41
	Philosophical Analysis in Education	42
	The Analysis of Teaching	45
	Current Analyses of Teaching	52
4	Continental Philosophy	58
	Existentialism	58
	Phenomenology	65
	Critical Theory	67
	Hermeneutics	71
	Postmodernism	72
5	Logic and Critical Thinking	78
	Formal Logic	78
	Informal Logic	85
	McPeck's View of Critical Thinking	89
	An Alternative Approach	91
6	Epistemology and Education	98
	Justified True Belief	99
	Foundationalism	100
	Truth	103
	Nonfoundational Theories of Knowledge	105
	Epistemology and Education	111
	Constructivism	115
7	Philosophy of Social Science and Educational Research	121
	How Does Science Grow?	121
	A Debate in Educational Research	126
	Some Examples	131
8	Ethics and Moral Education	136
	Pre-Enlightenment Ethics	137
	Enlightenment Ethics	141
	Utilitarianism	143
	Deweyan Ethics	146
	Moral Education	149
	Cognitive Developmentalism	151
9	Social and Political Philosophy	160
	The Current Debate	160
	Justice and Equality in Education	165
10	Feminism, Philosophy, and Education	179
	Feminist Critiques of Philosophy	179
	Epistemology	182
	Philosophy of Social Science	184
	Ethics	186
	Care and Education	190
	Epilogue	198
	Notes	201
	Bibliography	216
	About the Book and Author	222
	Index	223