Preface. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Joseph Dunne (Dublin City University) and Pádraig Hogan (National University of Ireland). 1. Alasdair MacIntyre on Education: In Dialogue with Joseph Dunne: Alasdair MacIntyre (University of Notre) and Joseph Dunne (Dublin City University). 2. Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life: Pádraig Hogan (National University of Ireland). 3.

MacIntyre: Teaching, Politics and Practice: Kenneth Wain (University of Malta). 4. Is Teaching a Practice?: Nel Noddings (Stanford University). 5. Rival Conceptions of Practice in Education and Teaching: David Carr (University of Edinburgh). 6. Pursuing the Idea/l of an Educated Public: Philosophy's Contributions to Radical School Reform: Daniel Vokey (University of British Columbia). 7.

MacIntyre's Moral Theory and the Possibility of an Aretaic Ethics of Teaching: Christopher Higgins (Columbia University, New York). 8. Pulled Up Short: Challenging Self-Understanding as a Focus of Teaching and Learning: Deborah Kerdeman (University of Washington). 9. Thinking With Each Other: the Peculiar Practice of the University: Richard Smith (University of Durham). 10. Is the Virtue Approach to Moral Education Viable in a Plural Society?: Katsushige Katayama (University of London). 11.

Teaching as a Practice and a Community of Practice: the Limits of Commonality and the Demands of Diversity: Terence H. McLaughlin (University of Cambridge). 12. Philosophy of Education: Wilfred Carr (University of Sheffield). 13. Arguing for Teaching as a Practice: A Reply to Alasdair MacIntyre: Joseph Dunne (Dublin City University). Bibliography. Index.