Educational Explanations. Christopher Winch
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The Journal of Philosophy of Education Book Series
The Journal of Philosophy of Education Book Series publishes titles that represent a wide variety of philosophical traditions. They vary from examination of fundamental philosophical issues in their connection with education, to detailed critical engagement with current educational practice or policy from a philosophical point of view. Books in this series promote rigorous thinking on educational matters and identify and criticise the ideological forces shaping education.
Titles in the series include:
Educational Explanations: Philosophy in Empirical Educational Research Christopher Winch
Education and Expertise Edited by Mark Addis and Christopher Winch
Teachers’ Know-How: A Philosophical Investigation Christopher Winch
Citizenship for the Learning Society: Europe, Subjectivity, and Educational Research Naomi Hodgson
Philosophy East/West: Exploring Intersections between Educational and Contemplative PracticesEdited by Oren Ergas and Sharon Todd
The Ways We Think: From the Straits of Reason to the Possibilities of ThoughtEmma Williams
Philosophical Perspectives on Teacher EducationEdited by Ruth Heilbronn and Lorraine Foreman-Peck
Re-Imagining Relationships in Education: Ethics, Politics and PracticesEdited by Morwenna Griffiths, Marit Honerød Hoveid, Sharon Todd and Christine Winter
Vygotsky: Philosophy and EducationJan Derry
Education and the Growth of Knowledge: Perspectives from Social and Virtue EpistemologyEdited by Ben Kotzee
Education Policy: Philosophical CritiqueEdited by Richard Smith
Levinas, Subjectivity, Education: Towards an Ethics of Radical ResponsibilityAnna Strhan
Philosophy for Children in Transition: Problems and ProspectsEdited by Nancy Vansieleghem and David Kennedy
The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional PracticeChris Higgins
Reading R. S. Peters Today: Analysis, Ethics, and the Aims of EducationEdited by Stefaan E. Cuypers and Christopher Martin
The Formation of ReasonDavid Bakhurst
What Do Philosophers of Education Do?: (And How Do They Do It?)Edited by Claudia Ruitenberg
Evidence-Based Education Policy: What Evidence? What Basis? Whose Policy?Edited by David Bridges, Paul Smeyers and Richard Smith
New Philosophies of LearningEdited by Ruth Cigman and Andrew Davis
The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal: A Defence by Richard Pring with Complementary EssaysEdited by Mark Halstead and Graham Haydon
Philosophy, Methodology and Educational ResearchEdited by David Bridges and Richard D. Smith
Philosophy of the TeacherNigel Tubbs
Conformism and Critique in Liberal SocietyEdited by Frieda Heyting and Christopher Winch
Retrieving Nature: Education for a Post-Humanist AgeMichael Bonnett
Education and Practice: Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and LearningEdited by Joseph Dunne and Pádraig Hogan
Educating Humanity: Bildung in PostmodernityEdited by Lars Lovlie, Klaus Peter Mortensen and Sven Erik Nordenbo
The Ethics of Educational ResearchEdited by Michael McNamee and David Bridges
In Defence of High CultureJohn Gingell and Ed Brandon
Enquiries at the Interface: Philosophical Problems of On-Line EducationEdited by Paul Standish and Nigel Blake
The Limits of Educational AssessmentAndrew Davis
Illusory Freedoms: Liberalism, Education and the MarketEdited by Ruth Jonathan
Quality and EducationChristopher Winch
Educational Explanations
Philosophy in Empirical Educational Research
Christopher Winch
This edition first published 2022
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