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  • Needs

    by Garrett Thomson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, Needs by Garrett Thomson aims to explain the ways in which the concept of a need functions, and an important part of this must be to reveal its distinctive empirical content and show how that content relates to its evaluative role. Thomson examines the distinction between fundamental needs and desires, addressing topics such as human nature, harm, interests, and the limits ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Ethical Education

    Towards an Ecology of Human Development

    Edited by Scherto Gill, Garrett Thomson ...
    Series series Cambridge Education Research
    Ethical education should help students become more sensitive to the perspectives and experiences of others. However, the field is dominated by the teaching of moral values as a subject-matter, or by the fostering of character traits in students, or by moral reasoning. This book proposes an alternative to these limited moralistic approaches. It places human relationships at the core of ethical ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • The Longman Standard History of 19th Century Philosophy

    by Daniel Kolak, Garrett Thomson ...
    With selections of philosophers from Fichte to Dewey, this new anthology provides significant learning support and historical context for the readings along with a wide variety of pedagogical assists.Biographical headnotes, reading introductions, study questions, and specialPrologues andPhilosophical Overviews help students understand and appreciate the philosophical concepts under discussion ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life

    A Transformative Vision for Human Well-Being

    by Garrett Thomson, Scherto Gill, Ivor Goodson ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neoclassical economic assumptions, however, the field is deeply flawed. Departing from reductive accounts of well-being that exclude the normative or evaluative ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Understanding Peace Holistically

    From the Spiritual to the Political

    by Scherto Gill, Garrett Thomson ...
    Understanding Peace Holistically: From the Spiritual to the Political argues that spiritually rooted and morally oriented peacefulness is relevant to the socio-economic–political structures that provide the conditions for a culture of peace. As the authors build up a theory of peace from the spiritual to the relational and communal towards the socio-political, this book also identifies key ... Read more

    $103.09 USD

  • The Longman Standard History of Ancient Philosophy

    by Daniel Kolak, Garrett Thomson ...
    With selections of philosophers from Thales to Sextus Empiricus, this new anthology provides significant learning support and historical context for the readings along with a wide variety of pedagogical assists.Biographical headnotes, reading introductions, study questions, and special “Prologues” and “Philosophical Overviews” help students understand and appreciate the philosophical concepts ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • The Longman Standard History of Medieval Philosophy

    by Garrett Thomson, Daniel Kolak ...
    With selections of philosophers from Plotinus to Bruno, this new anthology provides significant learning support and historical context for the readings along with a wide variety of pedagogical assists.Featuring biographical headnotes, reading introductions, study questions, as well as special “Prologues” and “Philosophical Overviews,” this anthology offers a unique set of critical thinking ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Rethinking Secondary Education

    A Human-Centred Approach

    by Scherto Gill, Garrett Thomson ...
    'This is a timely, accessible and engaging book of considerable intellectual stature, bold imagination and practical wisdom. Not only does it develop penetrating, elegant analyses of what is wrong with current state controlled and alternative approaches to contemporary education, it also offers imaginative, practical suggestions for a more fulfilling, human centred alternative.'Professor Michael ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Human-Centred Education

    A practical handbook and guide

    by Scherto Gill, Garrett Thomson ...
    Human-Centred Education (HCE) radically rethinks the aims of education, the nature of learning, and the relationship between individuals in schools. This accessible guide presents a HCE approach to schooling and includes a variety of rich pedagogical examples. It provides practical suggestions as to how the approach might be adopted as a whole-school initiative, or else woven into particular ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Brief History of 20th Century Western Philosophy

    by Garrett Thomson ...
    Narrated by James Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    During the 20th century, our understanding of the world was transformed thanks to the likes of relativity, quantum physics, molecular biology, chaos theory and computer science. Likewise, our comprehension of ourselves developed dramatically courtesy of theories such as behaviourism, structuralism and cognitive science.The history of Western philosophy in the 20th century broadly reflects all of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • What Expert Teachers Do

    Enhancing Professional Knowledge for Classroom Practice

    by John Loughran ...
    How do expert teachers do it? How do they enhance student learning? How do they manage the dilemmas and tensions inherent in working with 25 different students in every lesson?Internationally respected teacher educator John Loughran argues that teachers’ knowledge of what they do is largely tacit and often misunderstood. In this book, he distils the essence of professional practice for classroom ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Last Days of Socrates

    by Plato, Christopher Rowe ...
    Translated by Christopher Rowe ...
    Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy of a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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