EDUC 964 Seminar in Educational Theory
An examination of the major contributions to educational theory in their historical and contemporary contexts, with their persisting and changing influences on educational practices.

EDUC 964 Electronic Texts

Plato
Primary
The Republic

The Meno

Secondary
Plato on Education as the Development of Reason  Samuel Scolnicov

Plato's Moral Psychology   Sheldon Wein

Theory of Education in the Republic of Plato

Plato's Republic a reader's Guide


Overview of Plato's Thought for Beginners

Aristotle.
Primary
Aristotle, Politics Selections from Books 7 and 8

Nicomachean Ethics

Secondary
Aristotle on Paideia of Principles Marie I. George

Aristotle's Reform of Paideia Evelyn M. Barker

Virtue Ethics (Not Too) Simplified Philip Cafaro

Ethics    Steven Darwall

The Nicomachean approach to ethics: The Argument of Ethics I and II

Augustine.
Primary
Augustine  On The Catechizing of the Instructed

Augustine's Confessions  A Guide for Beginners

Secondary
Reflections of a Disordered Youth: An Augustinian Approach to Christian Moral

Locke
Primary
Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke An essay Concerning Understanding

Rousseau
Primary
Emile

Selections from Emile

Secondary
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Father of Government Schools Mary K. Novello

Wollstonecraft
Primary
A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Secondary
Daniel Defoe The Education Of Women

Spencer
Primary
Social Darwinism

First Principles

Laws in general

Secondary
Herbert Spencer:  Social Darwinism in Education

Dewey.
Primary
The Quest for Certainty  Ch II

My Pedagogic Creed

Experience and Education

Democracy and Education

Secondary
Dewey's Version of Pragmatism  by Michael J. Quirk

Bourdieu
Primary
Participant Objectivation

Secondary
Pierre Bourdieu Bibliography

Pierre Bourdieu as New Global Intellectual for Capital

Pierre Bourdieu   Craig Calhoun

Reading Bourdieu's «Capital».    Loïc Wacquant

Nussbaum
Primary
Liberal Education and Global Responsibility

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

Rules for the World Stage

Capabilities and Human Rights

Habermas
Primary
The Inclusion of the Other. Studies in Political Theory. VIII and IX of Chapter 1

Secondary
The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas. . Antje Gimmler

Discourse Ethics And Restructuring   Kenneth A. Strike

Benhabib
Primary
The Liberal Imagination and the Four Dogmas of Multiculturalism 1

From identity politics to social feminism: A plea for the nineties

Unholy Politics

Secondary
Benhabib's Discourse Ethics

Ruling Norms and the Politics of Difference: A Comment on Seyla Benhabib

Taylor
Charles Taylor Primary Bibliography of Books

Charles Taylor Primary Bibliography of Articles

Taylor

Taylor on the web

MacIntyre
After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre  Notes by Dr. Ronald C. Arnett

Alasdair MacIntyre Primary Bibliography of Books

Alasdair MacIntyre Primary Bibliography of Articles

Resources for further study of the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre


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