Reading R. S. Peters Today

Stefaan E. Cuypers is Professor of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Cuypers is the author of Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy (2001), co-author of Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education (2008), and an invited contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education (2009). Christopher Martin is Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University, London. While he presently works in philosophy of education, political and moral philosophy, Martin is a former school principal in Canada, where he taught in a number of subject areas such as literature and science, and worked with kindergarten through high school level students.

• Notes on Contributors vii Preface xiPaul StandishIntroductionReading R. S. Peters on Education TodayStefaan E. Cuypers and Christopher Martin 1I. The Conceptual Analysis of Education and Teaching1 Was Peters Nearly Right About Education?Robin Barrow 62 Learning Our ConceptsMegan Laverty 243 On Education and InitiationMichael Luntley 384 Ritual, Imitation and Education in R. S. PetersBryan Warnick 545 Transformation and Education: the Voice of the Learner in Peters’ Concept of TeachingAndrea English 72II. The Justification of Educational Aims and the Curriculum6 R. S. Peters’ Normative Conception of Education and Educational AimsMichael Katz 947 On the Worthwhileness of Theoretical ActivitiesMichael Hand 1068 Why General Education? Peters, Hirst and HistoryJohn White 1199 The Good, the Worthwhile and the Obligatory: Practical Reason and Moral Universalism in R. S. Peters’ Conception of EducationChristopher Martin 13810 Overcoming Social Pathologies in Education: On the Concept of Respect in R. S. Peters and Axel HonnethKrassimir Stojanov 156III. Aspects of Ethical Development and Moral Education11 Reason and Virtues: The Paradox of R. S. Peters on Moral EducationGraham Haydon 16812 Autonomy in R. S. Peters’ Educational TheoryStefaan E. Cuypers 185IV. Peters in Context13 Richard Peters and Valuing AuthenticityMike Degenhardt 20514 Vision and Elusiveness in Philosophy of Education: R. S. Peters on the Legacy of Michael OakeshottKevin Williams 219Index 237