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Why do we educate? :

Why do we educate? : renewing the conversation / editors for volume one, David L. Coulter, John R. Wiens. - viii, 314 pages ; 24 cm. - 107th yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, v. 1 0077-5762 ; . - Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education ; 107th, pt. 1. .

Volume two is titled Why do we educate? : voices from the conversation.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prologue: Renewing the conversation / David Coulter & John R. Wiens -- Joining the conversation -- Education and schooling : a relationship that can never be taken for granted / Ken Osborne -- Education and democracy : the United States of America as a historical case study / Diane Ravitch -- Education for a flourishing life / Harry Brighouse -- Creating common and uncommon worlds -- American democracy, education, and utopianism / Eamonn Callan -- Education for global citizenship / Kwarme Anthony Appiah -- L'affaire du foulard (The scarf affair) / Seyla Benhabib -- Deliberative democracy and civic education / Lars Løvlie -- Horizons of significance -- Culture and education / Sonia Nieto -- Democratic citizenship and the narrative imagination / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Teaching natural science in the twenty-first century : opportunities and dangers / Ian Winchester -- The role of mathematics in education and democracy / Deborah Loewenberg Ball & Hyman Bass -- Spirituality and religion in public schooling / Nel Noddings -- Education and economic development / Randall Nielsen & Janice Kingborn -- Giving the body its due : autobiographical reflections and utopian imaginings / Joannie Halas & Jeanne Adele Kentel -- Indigenous knowledge systems and education / Ray Barnhardt & Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley -- Educating at the interface of biosphere and bitsphere / Ursula M. Franklin -- Imagining and becoming : education as lifelong and lifewide -- Education and childhood / Joseph Dunne -- Educating adolescents / Kieran Egan -- Some educational implications of adulthood / Gary D. Fenstermacher -- Epilogue: Democratic eruptions / John R. Wiens & David Coulter.

Annotation This book reflects the editors; concerns that too many public discussions of education are dominated by too few ideas, and is intended to serve as a kind of handbook for those who wish to enter the conversation about education A work of impressive scholarship accessible to the general reader A unique collection of essays written by internationally recognized and emerging thinkers from the field of education and related disciplines Contributors, among others, include Anthony Appiah (Princeton); Seyla Benhabib (Yale); Eamonn Callan (Stanford); Joseph Dunne (St. Patricks College, Ireland); Kieran Egan (Simon Fraser); Ursula Franklin (Toronto); Nel Noddings (Stanford); Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) and Diane Ravitch (New York).


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2009.
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Education.
Democracy and education.
Education--Philosophy.
Education--United States.
Education--Aims and objectives.
Démocratie et éducation--États-Unis.
Éducation civique--États-Unis.
Éducation--Philosophie.
Éducation--Finalités.
Democracy and education.
Education.
Education--Aims and objectives.
Education--Philosophy.


United States.

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