Hogan, Pádraig (2011) The ethical orientations of education as a practice in its own right. Ethics and Education, 6 (1). pp. 27-40. ISSN 1744-9642

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This article is the second of a two-part investigation, the first part of which was published in Ethics and Education, vol. 5, issue 2, 2010, under the title ‘Preface to an ethics of education as a practice in its own right’. Although it builds on the arguments of that ‘preface’, this second part of the investigation can be read as a stand-alone essay. It begins with a brief review of a new subordination of educational practice achieved by a neoliberal tenor in international educational reforms in recent decades in Western societies. The practical context for the essay however is that failure of many of these reforms, like the failure of neo-liberal dominance in socioeconomic policy, has given rise to emergent opportunities where inspirations for educational debate and policy-making are concerned. Arguing for the uptake of such opportunity, the ethical tenor of education as a practice in its own right is explored under four headings: (1) review and clarification of the inherent purposes of education as a practice; (2) investigation of educationally productive pathways that are characteristic of education as a practice in its own right; (3) elucidation of a recognisable family of virtues that arise from that practice itself; (4) exploration of the kinds of relationships through which these virtues, and their educational fruits, are nourished.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The definitive version of this article is available at DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2011.587345
Keywords:	educational practice; inherent purposes; virtues of teaching; virtues of learning; educational ethics; relationships of learning;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Education
Item ID:	4129
Depositing User:	Dr. Padraig Hogan,
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2013 14:27
Journal or Publication Title:	Ethics and Education
Publisher:	Routledge
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ceae20/cu... http://www.routledge.com/
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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