Education and Practice: Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and Learning

This volume explores the distinctiveness of teaching and learning as a human undertaking and the nature and scope of the philosophy of education.

• An investigation of the distinctiveness of teaching and learning as a human undertaking.
• Provides fresh thinking on the nature and scope of the philosophy of education.
• Draws on the original insights of an international group of experts in philosophy and education.
• Includes an interview on education with Alasdair MacIntyre, together with searching investigations of his views by other contributors.

This volume explores the distinctiveness of teaching and learning as a human undertaking and the nature and scope of the philosophy of education.

• An investigation of the distinctiveness of teaching and learning as a human undertaking.


• Provides fresh thinking on the nature and scope of the philosophy of education.


• Draws on the original insights of an international group of experts in philosophy and education.


• Includes an interview on education with Alasdair MacIntyre, together with searching investigations of his views by other contributors.

Joseph Dunne is Senior Lecturer in Education at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, where he co-ordinates the Human Development programme. He is the author of Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgement and the Lure of Technique (1997) and the co-editor of Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy, (2000) and Childhood and its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures (2002).

Pádraig Hogan is Senior Lecturer in Education at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is a former President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He is the author of The Custody and Courtship of Experience: Western Education in Philosophical Perspective (1995), and the editor of Partnership and the Benefits of Learning (1995) and Willingly to School? (1987).