Philosophical Perspectives on Teacher Education

Preface viiJanet Orchard and Alis OanceaAcknowledgements xiNotes on Contributors xiiEditors' Introduction xviiiRuth Heilbronn and Lorraine Foreman-PeckPart 1 What Do Teachers Need to Know? 11 How Does a Competent Teacher Become a Good Teacher?: On Judgement, Wisdom and Virtuosity in Teaching and Teacher Education 3Gert Biesta2 Learning to Teach and Becoming a Teacher: Techne and Phronesis 23Colin Wringe3 The Idea of a University and School Partnership 38James MacallisterPart 2 What Makes a Good Teacher? 554 Why We Need a Virtue Ethics of Teaching 57Chris Higgins5 Wigs, Disguises and Child's Play: Solidarity in Education 76Ruth Heilbronn6 To Believe, to Think, to Know - to Teach?: Ethical Deliberation in Teacher Education 89Damien Shortt, Paul Reynolds, Mary McAteer and Fiona HallettPart 3 Being a Teacher? 1097 The Role of Higher Education in Teacher Education: A Reorientation Towards Ontology 111David Aldridge8 Cultivating Human Capabilities in Venturesome Learning Environments 132Padraig Hogan9 Towards a Theory of Well?]Being for Teachers 152Lorraine Foreman?]PeckReferences 167Index 000