The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional PracticeISBN: 978-1-4443-3930-7
Paperback
320 pages
October 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.
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Makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of teaching and also offers new insights into virtue theory and professional ethics
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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
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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
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Presents a compelling vision of teaching as a reflective practice showing how this requires us to prepare teachers differently
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