The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education

Introduction: Philosophy of Education and Philosophy; AIMS OF EDUCATION; 1. The Epistemic Aims of Education; 2. Moral and Political Aspects of Education; 3. Tagore, Dewey, and the Imminent Demise of Liberal Education; THINKING, REASONING, TEACHING AND LEARNING; 4. Thinking, Reasoning, and Education; 5. Why Fallibility Has Not Mattered and How It Could; 6. Indoctrination; 7. Educating for Authenticity: The Paradox of Moral Education Revisited; 8. The Development of Rationality; 9. Philosophy and Developmental Psychology: Getting Beyond the Deficit Conception of Childhood; 10. Socratic Teaching and Socratic Method; 11. Educating the Practical Imagination: A Prolegomena; MORAL, VALUE, AND CHARACTER EDUCATION; 12. Caring, Empathy, and Moral Education; 13. Kantian Moral Maturity and the Cultivation of Character; 14. The Persistence of Moral Skepticism and the Limits of Moral Education; 15. Values Education; KNOWLEDGE, CURRICULUM, AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; 16. Curriculum and the Value of Knowledge; 17. Education, Democracy, and Capitalism; 18. Art and Education; 19. Science Education, Religious Toleration, and Liberal Neutrality Toward the Good; 20. Constructivisms, Scientific Methods and Reflective Judgment in Science Education; 21. Empirical Educational Research: Charting Philosophical Disagreements in an Undisciplined Field; SOCIAL/POLITICAL ISSUES; 22. Educating for Individual Freedom and Democratic Citizenship: In Unity and Diversity There Is Strength; 23. Mapping Multicultural Education; 24. Prejudice; 25. Educational Authority and the Interests of Children; APPROACHES TO PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AND PHILOSOPHY; 26. Pragmatist Philosophy of Education; 27. Feminist Philosophy and Education; 28. Postmodernism and Education

"[T]he collection has notable strengths. The essays cover a wide range of interesting topics from a variety of philosophical perspectives. They are uniformly well-written and accessible to readers without a prior background in the philosophy of education.... As a collection of papers likely to advance research in the philosophy of education, the collection contains many essays that directly take on issues in the area and make important contributions to on-going debates."--Peter J. Markie, BNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"The Handbook delivers twenty-eight substantial, carefully wrought, informative chapters treating such topics as indoctrination, fallibility, empathy, values, skepticism, imagination, stereotypes, and many others. The chapters try to extract the good from the bad in debates about critical thinking, constructivism, multiculturalism, religious toleration, moral and civic education, parents' rights, and curriculum design. Some of the chapters are quite original (e.g., Philip Kitcher's and Elijah Millgram's); some ought to go on required reading lists (e.g., Nicholas Burbules's and Meira Levinson's); all make important distinctions and clarify contemporary debates. There's not a clunker in the lot." --Social Theory and Practice