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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Standish, Paul – Ethics and Education, 2014
This article explores aspects of eros in education in relation to ideas of indirectness associated with the French concept of "pudeur," sometimes translated as "modesty". It explores lines of thought extending through Emerson and Nietzsche but reaching back to Plato's "Symposium." This is a means of exposing the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy, Ethics, Outcomes of Education
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Standish, Paul – Ethics and Education, 2012
In this article, the author talks about the registers of the religious and focuses on the Terence H. McLaughlin lecture 2010. He starts from MacIntyre's observation that people live in a world characterized by a vocabulary of value whose purchase on life is no longer authentically experienced: "MacIntyre's diagnosis of the impoverished condition…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Religion, Marital Status, Pregnancy
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Standish, Paul – Ethics and Education, 2009
J.M. Coetzee's "Elizabeth Costello" is an overtly philosophical novel, at the heart of which are questions concerning the relation of human beings to animals and the discussion of animal rights. The nature of its subject matter and the prominence it gives to dialogue, sometimes of an almost Platonic kind, make it a rich potential resource for…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Novels, Animals, Literature Reviews
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Standish, Paul – Ethics and Education, 2007
What is the place of philosophy in the study of education? What is its significance for policy and practice? This paper begins by considering the policy and institutional context of the philosophy of education in the UK and by tracing its recent history. It examines both the place of philosophy in Education (as a field of study) and the status and…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Standish, Paul – Ethics and Education, 2007
In his essay 'The Scandal of Skepticism', Stanley Cavell discusses aspects of the work of Emmanuel Levinas with a view to understanding how "philosophical and religious ambitions so apparently different" as his own and those of Levinas can have led to "phenomenological coincidences so precise." The present paper explores themes of scepticism and…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Perspective Taking, Role of Religion
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Standish, Paul – Ethics and Education, 2006
Doubts have been expressed about the virtue of toleration, especially in view of what some have seen as its complicity with a morality of anything goes. More rigorous arguments have been provided by Peter Gardner and Harvey Siegel against the relativism evident in certain versions of multiculturalism and in the new religious studies. This article…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Religion Studies, Religious Education, Beliefs