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    The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice

    By Chris Higgins

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    The Good Life of Teaching extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation, identity, and development.
    • Makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of teaching and also offers new insights into virtue theory and professional ethics
    • Offers fresh and detailed readings of major figures in ethics, including Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams and the practical philosophies of Hannah Arendt, John Dewey and Hans-Georg Gadamer
    • Provides illustrations to assist the reader in visualizing major points, and integrates sources such as film, literature, and teaching memoirs to exemplify arguments in an engaging and accessible way
    • Presents a compelling vision of teaching as a reflective practice showing how this requires us to prepare teachers differently
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateSep 19, 2011
    ISBN9781444346510
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    Chris Higgins

    Chris Higgins started her author career writing for teenagers and young adults. She has won a number of awards including Young Minds, the Lancashire Book Award, the Lincolnshire Young People's Book Award, the KYBA, and she has been shortlisted twice for Queen of Teen. In 2012, Chris turned her hand to writing young fiction. Her My Funny Family series was published with great success with the first book being selected for Booktrust's Bookbuzz scheme. Chris Higgins has four daughters and is rapidly acquiring a whole bunch of grandchildren even though she feels far too young to be a granny. She has travelled the world extensively and now lives in West Cornwall with her husband.

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