Randall Curren is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Education at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education (2000) and other works in the philosophy of education, ethics, ancient Greek philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. He is also the editor of Philosophy of Education: An Anthology (2006), and co-editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education.

Notes on Contributors ix Preface xvi Introduction 1
Randall Curren Part I Historical and Contemporary Movements 5 1 The Socratic Movement 7
C. D. C. Reeve 2 Stoicism 25
Christopher Gill 3 The Judaic Tradition 33Hanan A. Alexander and Shmuel Glick 4 The Educational Thought of Augustine 50Gareth B. Matthews 5 Humanism 62Craig Kallendorf 6 Enlightenment Liberalism 73Amy M. Schmitter, Nathan Tarcov, and Wendy Donner 7 Rousseau, Dewey, and Democracy 94Patrick Riley and Jennifer Welchman 8 Kant, Hegel, and the Rise of Pedagogical Science 113G. Felicitas Munzel 9 Romanticism 130Frederick C. Beiser 10 The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium, and Altertumswissenschaft 143Wolfgang Mann 11 Critical Theory 161Douglas Kellner 12 The Analytical Movement 176Randall Curren, Emily Robertson, and Paul Hager 13 Feminism 192Jane Roland Martin 14 Postmodernism 206David E. Cooper Part II Teaching and Learning 219 15 The Nature and Purposes of Education 221Paul Standish 16 Theories of Teaching and Learning 232D. C. Phillips 17 The Capacity to Learn 246Carol Wren and Thomas Wren 18 Motivation and Classroom Management 260Richard Ryan and Martin Lynch 19 The Measurement of Learning 272Andrew Davis 20 Knowledge, Truth, and Learning 285Jonathan E. Adler 21 Cultivating Reason 305Harvey Siegel 22 Moral Education 320Graham Haydon 23 Religious Education 332Gabriel Moran 24 Teaching Science 342Michael R. Matthews 25 Teaching Elementary Arithmetic through Applications 354Mark Steiner 26 Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art 365Noël Carroll 27 Teaching Literature 384Richard Smith Part III The Politics and Ethics of Schooling 395 28 The Authority and Responsibility to Educate 397Amy Gutmann 29 Church, State, and Education 412William Galston 30 Common Schooling and Educational Choice 430Rob Reich 31 Children's Rights 443
James G. Dwyer 32 Education and Standards of Living 456Christian Barry 33 Educational Equality and Justice 471Harry Brighouse 34 Multicultural Education 487Robert K. Fullinwider 35 Education and the Politics of Identity 501Yael Tamir 36 The Ethics of Teaching 509Kenneth A. Strike 37 Inclusion and Justice in Special Education 525Robert F. Ladenson 38 Sex Education 540David Archard Part IV Higher Education 549 39 Ethics and the Aims of American Higher Education 551Minda Rae Amiran 40 Universities in a Fluid Age 561Ronald Barnett 41 Academic Freedom 569Robert L. Simon 42 The Ethics of Research 583Michael Davis 43 Affirmative Action in Higher Education 593Bernard Boxill 44 The Professor-Student Relationship and the Regulation of Student Life 605Peter J. Markie 45 The Role of Ethics in Professional Education 617Norman E. Bowie Index 627