Why do we educate? : renewing the conversation /

Why do we educate? : renewing the conversation /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: National Society for the Study of Education, Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Coulter, David L., Fenstermacher, Gary D., Wiens, John R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : National Society for the Study of Education, [2008]
Series:Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education ; 107th, pt. 1.
Subjects:
Democracy and education.
Education > Aims and objectives.
Education > Philosophy.
Education > United States.
Education.
Démocratie et éducation > États-Unis.
Éducation civique > États-Unis.
Éducation > Finalités.
Éducation > Philosophie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.