Recommended Readings: New Book on Philosophy of Education

by Steven Cahn

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Recommended readings include books that help to understand the concepts of education, ethics, morality, spychology, philosophy, human rights, and many more...

Steven Cahn (ed.), Classic and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Education, published in 2012 is, according to the website Oxford University Press, a collection of the most comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of education, as it features work for both classical writers and contemporary thinkers. 

The first section provides material from nine classic writers, namely Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill, Whitehead and J. Dewey. The expanded section includes eight new readings by Locke, Rousseau, Kant and Dewey. 

The second section represents twenty-one recent selections that reflect diverse approaches, including pragmatism, analytical philosophy, feminism, and multiculturalism.

PART I. CLASSIC THEORIES

1. Plato: Meno, Protagoras (selection),  The Republic (selection)

2. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (selection), Politics (selection)

3. John Locke: Some Thoughts Concerning Education (selection)

4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile (selection)

5. Immanuel Kant: Lectures on Pedagogy (selection)

6. Mary Wollstonecraft: * A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (selection)

7. John Stuart Mill: Inaugural Address at St. Andrews

8. Alfred North Whitehead: The Aims of Education (selection)

9. John Dewey: The Child and the Curriculum, Democracy and Education (selection), Experience and Education

PART II. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

A. Schools

10. A. S. Neill: Summerhill (selection)

11. Patricia Heidenry: * Home Is Where the School Is

12. Kieran Egan: Open Education: Open to What?

13. Joseph S. Spoerl: * Justice and the Case for School Vouchers

14. Jeffrey R. Henig: * Rethinking School Choice

15. Amy Gutmann: Democratic Education (selection)

16. Israel Scheffler: Moral Education and the Democratic Ideal

B. Teaching

17. Paul H. Hirst: What Is Teaching?

18. John Passmore: * The Concept of Teaching

19. Jacques Maritain: Education at the Crossroads (selection)

20. Michel Foucault: * Discipline and Punish (selection)

21. Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (selection)

22. Nel Noddings: Caring (selection)

23. Steven M. Cahn: * Guiding, Grading, and Guarding

C. Curriculum

24. Sidney Hook: The Content of a Liberal Education

25. Jane Roland Martin: Two Dogmas of Curriculum

26. Maxine Greene: The Passions of Pluralism: Multiculturalism and the Expanding Community

27. Richard M. Rorty: Hermeneutics, General Studies, and Teaching

28. John R. Searle: Traditionalists and Their Challengers

29. Martha Nussbaum: * Cultivating Humanity (selection)

30. Wm. Theodore de Bary: Asia in the Core Curriculum

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