LEADER 05190nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910139592503321 005 20230725053435.0 010 $a1-283-28457-X 010 $a9786613284570 010 $a1-4443-4653-9 010 $a1-4443-4650-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000054378 035 $a(EBL)698150 035 $a(OCoLC)758358177 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537199 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11339791 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537199 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10550303 035 $a(PQKB)10749205 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC698150 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL698150 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10501346 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL328457 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000054378 100 $a20111027d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe good life of teaching$b[electronic resource] $ean ethics of professional practice /$fChristopher Higgins 210 $aChichester, West Sussex, UK ;$aMalden, MA $cWiley-Blackwell$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (322 p.) 225 1 $aJournal of philosophy of education book series 300 $aOriginally published as Volume 44, issue 2 and 3 of the Journal of philosophy of education. 311 $a1-4443-3930-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice; Contents; Foreword by Richard Smith; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why We Need a Virtue Ethics of Teaching; Saints and scoundrels; A brief for teacherly self-cultivation; From the terrain of teaching to the definition of professional ethics; Outline of the argument; Part I: The Virtues of Vocation: From Moral professionalism to Practical Ethics; 1: Work and Flourishing: Williams' Critique of Morality and its Implications for Professional Ethics; Retrieving Socrates' question; Modern moral myopia; What do moral agents want? 327 $aFrom moral professionalism to professional ethics2: Worlds of Practice: MacIntyre's Challenge to Applied Ethics; The architecture of MacIntyre's moral theory; A closer look at internal goods; The practicality of ethical reflection; What counts as a practice: The proof, the pudding, and the recipe; Boundary conditions: Practitioners, managers, interpreters, and fans; 3: Labour, Work, and Action: Arendt's Phenomenology of Practical Life; Arendt's singular project; Defining the deed; Hierarchy and interdependence in the vita activa; Praxis in the professions 327 $a4: A Question of Experience: Dewey and Gadamer on Practical WisdomThe constant gardener; The existential and aesthetic dimensions of vocation; Our dominant vocation; Practical wisdom and the circle of experience; The open question; Part II: A Virtue Ethics for Teachers: Problems and prospects; 5: The Hunger Artist: Pedagogy and the Paradox of Self-Interest; A blind spot in the educational imagination; The hunger artist; The very idea of a helping profession; This ripeness of self; 6: Working Conditions: The Practice of Teaching and the Institution of School 327 $aA prima facie case for teaching as a practiceMacIntyre's objection; Schools as surroundings; 7: The Classroom Drama: Teaching as Endless Rehearsal and Cultural Elaboration; Education as the drama of cultural renewal; A false lead; Teaching as labour, work, and action; Education, shelter, and mediation; Teaching as endless rehearsal; Teaching as cultural elaboration; 8: Teaching as Experience: Toward a Hermeneutics of Teaching and Teacher Education; Teaching as vocational environment; Batch processing, kitsch culture, and other obstacles to teacher vocation; The syntax of educational claims 327 $aThe shape of humanistic conversationHorizons of educational inquiry; Teacher education for practical wisdom; References; Index 330 $aThe Good Life of Teaching extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation, identity, and development.Makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of teaching and also offers new insights into virtue theory and professional ethicsOffers fresh and detailed readings of major figures in ethics, including Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams and the practical philosophies of 410 0$aJournal of philosophy of education book series. 606 $aTeaching$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aEducation$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aTeaching$xPhilosophy 606 $aEducation$xPhilosophy 615 0$aTeaching$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aEducation$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aTeaching$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEducation$xPhilosophy. 676 $a371.102 686 $aPHI009000$2bisacsh 700 $aHiggins$b Chris$f1967-$0943686 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910139592503321 996 $aThe good life of teaching$92130251 997 $aUNINA