The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education
reviewed by Robin Barrow
 Title: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education Author(s): Harvey Siegel Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford ISBN: 0195312880, Pages: 576, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com
This handsome volume, divided into six sections, contains 28 chapters from 31 authors. There are three articles on the “aims of education,” eight on “thinking, reasoning, teaching and learning,” four devoted to “moral, value and character education,” six to “knowledge, curriculum, and educational research” (the last seeming somewhat out of place), five to “social and political issues,” and the final three to “approaches to philosophy of education and philosophy,” confined somewhat eclectically to pragmatism, feminism, and postmodernism. The quality of the individual chapters is generally high, as one might expect from a group of contributors many of whom (e.g., Gutmann, D.C. Phillips, Noddings and Nussbaum) are well–known in their field.
At this point, I must declare an interest of sorts. I am myself the co-editor of a directly comparable Handbook published by Sage. This is not all that surprising given the very large number of such Handbooks, Companions, Guides, etc., currently... (preview truncated at 150 words.) Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, 2009, p. -
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