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Chris Higgins

The Good Life of Teaching

An Ethics of Professional Practice

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What sort of work is teaching, and how does teaching shape the teacher? And why exactly do these questions matter within a 'helping profession' where altruistic talk of service dominates? In addressing these questions, this book offers not only a new statement in the philosophy of teaching but also an important advance in professional ethics. Drawing on recent developments in virtue ethics, Higgins demonstrates why an ethics of teaching must prioritize the question of the teacher's own self-enactment and self-cultivation, considering how the practice of teaching presents opportunities and obstacles for the teacher's own growth. By examining t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4443-4651-0
  • EAN: 9781444346510
  • Produktnummer: 13877842
  • Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 940 KB

Über den Autor


Chris Higgins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Associate Editor and Review Editor of Educational Theory. A philosopher of education, his work draws on virtue ethics, hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis. His scholarly interests include professional ethics and teacher identity, dialogue and the teacher-student relationship, liberal learning and the humanistic imagination, professional education and the philosophy of work.

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