Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I the Philosophy of Education: Classic readings on the Purpose of Education: Democracy and educational administration, John Dewey; The justification of education, R.S. Peters; What is teaching?, Paul H. Hirst; Learning and teaching, Michael Oakeshott. Contemporary Readings on the Purpose of Education: Colleges must reconstruct the unity of knowledge, Vartan Gregorian; The true scholar, Robert N. Bellah; The corporate university and the politics of education, Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux; Re-education of humankind: globalizing the curriculum and teaching international ethics for the new century, Roseann Runte. Part II The Process of Education: Critical Thinking: A concept of 'critical thinking', Robert H. Ennis; Critical thinking and the 'trivial pursuit' theory of knowledge, John E. McPeck; Format effects on critical thinking test performance, Stephen P. Norris. Aesthetics: The something more, Sharon Bailin; Social vision and the dance of life, Maxime Green. Part III Ethics and Social Responsibility: Toward a philosophy of moral education, William K. Frankena; Introducing ethics into every department: an overview, Michael Boylan and James A. Donahue; The primacy of political education, Amy Gutmann; Access to the university and the problem of racial inequality, Derek Bok; Liberal civic education and religious fundamentalism: the case of God v. John Rawls, Stephen Macedo; Justice and the threshold of educational equality, Randall R. Curren); Non-exclusion is not the same as inclusion: a response to Curren, Kenneth R. Howe; Human rights and academic freedom, Alan Gewirth. Part IV Students and Teachers: Cheating and Plagiarism: In other (people's) words: plagiarism by university students - literature and lessons, Chris Park; Academic dishonesty: a plague on our profession, Kenneth C. Petress (2003); Dishonesty in academic environments: the influence of peer reporting requirements, Donald L. McCabe, Linda Klebe Trev
Michael Boylan is the John J. McDonnell, Jr. Chair in Ethics at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, USA. Contributors: John Dewey, R.S. Peters, Paul H. Hirst, Michael Oakeshott, Vartan Gregorian, Robert N. Bellah, Stanley Aronowitz, Henry A. Giroux, Roseann Runte, Robert H. Ennis, John E. McPeck, Stephen P. Norris, Sharon Bailin, Maxime Greene, William K. Frankena, Michael Boylan, James A. Donahue, Amy Gutmann, Derek Bok, Stephen Macedo, Randall R. Curren, Kenneth R. Howe, Alan Gewirth, Chris Park, Kenneth C. Petress, Donald L. McCabe, Linda Klebe Trevino, Kenneth D. Butterfield, Mamta Agrawal, Nancy Mellin McCracken, Hugh Thomas McCracken, Jeff Zorn, Katharyne Mitchell, Christine Clark, Penny Enslin, Shirley Pendlebury, Joan Freeman, Blye W. Frank, Kevin G. Davison, R. Scott Baker, Robert A. Schwartz, Beverly L. Bower, Diana C. Rice, Charles M. Washington.
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