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    Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life


    Hogan, Pádraig (2003) Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 37 (2). pp. 207-223. ISSN 0309-8249

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    Abstract

    This essay seeks to show that teaching and learning are to be properly understood, not as an undertaking carried out on the will of a higher power or party, but as a way of life with an integrity of its own, arising from its own integral purposes. The essay thus seeks to provide an understanding of educational practice and of educational thought that contrasts in key respects with Alasdair MacIntyre’s understanding, though also with a some notable parallels. A largely forgotten ‘Socrates of Athens’ is identified as furnishing the original inspiration for the understanding of education explored in the essay. Some influential modern (and postmodern) negations of this understanding are then reviewed. Arising from its investigation of teaching and learning as a singular kind of relationship, the essay concludes with a brief sketch of some virtues that might constitute the way of life in question, in its more active and its more reflective moments.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Teaching; Learning; Way; Life;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Education
    Item ID: 8574
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.00321
    Depositing User: Dr. Padraig Hogan,
    Date Deposited: 08 Aug 2017 14:00
    Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Publisher: Wiley
    Refereed: Yes
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    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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