The 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 ethics * Offers fresh and detailed readings of major figures in ethics, including Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams and the practical philosophies of Hannah Arendt, John Dewey and Hans-Georg Gadamer * Provides illustrations to assist the reader in visualizing major points, and integrates sources such as film, literature, and teaching memoirs to exemplify arguments in an engaging and accessible way * Presents a compelling vision of teaching as a reflective practice showing how this requires us to prepare teachers differently
- ISBN10 1444339303
- ISBN13 9781444339307
- Publish Date 7 October 2011 (first published 9 September 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English