The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice

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