Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Philosophy, Educational Policy and Practice -- Introduction -- Philosophy and Educational Policy: Possibilities, Tensions and Tasks -- Education, Philosophy and the Comparative Perspective -- Education of the Whole Child? -- Beyond the Reflective Teacher -- National Identity and the Aims of Education -- Schooling, Citizenship and Diversity -- Introduction -- School Choice and Public Education in a Liberal Democratic Society -- Citizenship, Diversity and Education: A philosophical perspective -- The Burdens and Dilemmas of Common Schooling -- The Ethics of Separate Schools -- Distinctiveness and the Catholic School: Balanced Judgement and the Temptations of Commonality -- Moral, Religious and Values Education -- Introduction -- Philosophy, Values and Schooling: Principles and Predicaments of Teacher Example -- Education, Spirituality and the Common School -- Sex Education, Moral Controversy and the Common School -- Wittgenstein, Education and Religion -- Israel Scheffler on Religion, Reason and Education -- Back Matter -- Bibliography of T. H. McLaughlin -- List of References -- Also Available.