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1. Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning

   The Primacy of Dispositions

   By Hugh Sockett

   The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth. It offers...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
2. Educational Controversies Towards a Discourse of Reconciliation

   By Pamela Lapage, Hugh Sockett

   For the last 100 years, people have argued vigorously about a vast number of educational issues. At the heart of the arguments lies the question: What is the purpose of education? This conflict of educational purpose has seen rifts between academics, educators, politicians and parents. The authors...

   Published December 19th 2001 by Routledge