Reading R. S. Peters Today: Analysis, Ethics and the Aims of Education reassesses British philosopher Richard Stanley Peters' educational writings by examining them against the most recent developments in philosophy and practice.

Critically reassesses R. S. Peters, a philosopher who had a profound influence on a generation of educationalists
Brings clarity to a number of key educational questions
Exposes mainstream, orthodox arguments to sympathetic critical scrutiny

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Preface
Introduction: Reading R. S. Peters on Education Today
Chapter 1: Was Peters Nearly Right About Education?
Chapter 2: Learning Our Concepts
Chapter 3: On Education and Initiation
Chapter 4: Ritual, Imitation and Education in R. S. Peters
Chapter 5: Transformation and Education: The Voice of the Learner in Peters’ Concept of Teaching
Chapter 6: R. S. Peters’ Normative Conception of Education and Educational Aims
Chapter 7: On the Worthwhileness of Theoretical Activities
Chapter 8: Why General Education? Peters, Hirst and History
Chapter 9: The Good, the Worthwhile and the Obligatory: Practical Reason and Moral Universalism in R. S. Peters’ Conception of Education
Chapter 10: Overcoming Social Pathologies in Education: On the Concept of Respect in R. S. Peters and Axel Honneth
Chapter 11: Reason and Virtues: The Paradox of R. S. Peters on Moral Education
Chapter 12: Autonomy in R. S. Peters’ Educational Theory
Chapter 13: Richard Peters and Valuing Authenticity
Chapter 14: Vision and Elusiveness in Philosophy of Education: R. S. Peters on the Legacy of Michael Oakeshott
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