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Philosophy and Ethics in Western Australian Secondary Schools

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Millett, Stephan
Tapper, Alan
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2014
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Millett, Stephan and Tapper, Alan. 2014. Philosophy and Ethics in Western Australian Secondary Schools. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 46 (11): pp. 1212-1224.
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Educational Philosophy and Theory
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/">http://www.tandfonline.com/</a>. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2013.771444

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The introduction of Philosophy and Ethics to the Western Australian Certificate of Education courses in 2008 brought philosophy into the Western Australian secondary school curriculum for the first time. How philosophy came to be included is part of a larger story about the commitment and perseverance of a relatively small number of Australian educators and their belief in the value of introducing philosophical communities of inquiry into school classrooms through a revised pedagogy which could sit comfortably with an outcomes-based education system.