Why do we educate? : renewing the conversation / editors for volume one, David L. Coulter, John R. Wiens.
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TextSeries: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education ; 107th, pt. 1.Publisher: Chicago : National Society for the Study of Education ; [2008]Distributor: Malden, Mass. : Distributed by Blackwell Pub., [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: viii, 314 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444307214; 1444307215Subject(s): 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 | Electronic booksGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 370.115 LOC classification: LB5 | .N25 107th, pt.1Online resources: Wiley Online Library | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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