Educating for Democracy Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty

by Olson, Alan M.; Steiner, David M.; Tuuli, Irina S.; Abousenna, Mona; Ageev, Alexander; Chumakov, Alexander; Desmond, William; Ezra, Ovadia; Girusov, Eduard; Glenn, Charles L.; Googins, Bradley; Griffith, Sidney; Hankiss, Elmer; Hosle, Vittorio; Karpuhina,

• ISBN13: 9780742535398
• ISBN10: 0742535398
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The central conflicts of the world today are closely related to cultural, traditional, and religious differences between nations. As we move to a globalized world, these differences often become magnified, entrenched, and the cause of bloody conflict. Growing out of a conference of distinguished scholars from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, this volume is a singular contribution to mutual understanding and cooperative efforts on behalf of peace. The term paideia, drawn from Greek philosophy, has to do with responsible education for citizenship as a necessary precondition for effective democracy.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Foreword	1	(4)
Alexander Chumakov
Part One: Paideia in Philosophy and Religion
1 Introduction: Paideia in Philosophy and Religion	5	(6)
Alan M. Olson
2 Paideia: Anachronism or Necessity?	11	(14)
William Desmond
3 Paideia as the Unity of Knowledge and Enlightenment	25	(6)
Mourad Wahba
4 Science, Education, and the Transformation of Civilization in the Twenty-first Century	31	(12)
Viachaslav Stepin
5 The Noospheric Imperative for Paideia in the Twenty-first Century	43	(8)
Eduard Girusov
6 Paideia, Critical Thinking and Religion in Education	51	(8)
Vladislav Lektorsky
7 Interreligious Dialogues during the Middle Ages and Early Modernity	59	(26)
Vittorio Hösle
8 The Impact of Modernity on Jewish Life	85	(12)
Steven Katz
9 Paideia and Adab in Islam	97	(6)
Nur Kirabiev
10 The Changing Face of Islamic Radicalism	103	(12)
Alexei Malashenko
11 Christian-Islamic Dialogue in the Twenty-first Century	115	(16)
Sidney Griffith
Part Two: Paideia and Education
12 Introduction: Paideia and Education	131	(6)
David Steiner
13 Paideia: Anachronism or Necessity?	137	(12)
John Silber
14 Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty	149	(14)
Elemer Hankiss
15 After NATO, Paideia?	163	(8)
Igor Lukes
16 Liberal Education in the Face of Antidemocracy	171	(8)
Kurt Salamun
17 Prescribing Orthodoxy	179	(14)
Charles Glenn
18 Dedogmatizing Reason	193	(10)
Mona Abousenna
19 Education and Democratization in an Age of Islamism	203	(18)
Bassam Tibi
20 Education to Conscience and Political Disobedience: The Role of the Role Model	221	(12)
Ovadia Ezra
21 Face to Face with Eudaimonia: The Post-Soviet Teacher's Identity Crisis	233	(14)
Elena Trubina
22 Reformatting the Idea of a University	247	(18)
Gregory Walters
Part Three: Paideia and Economics
23 The Ethics of Political Economy: A Roundtable Discussion	265	(36)
Alexander Ageev, Bradley Googins, Elena Karpuhina, Katherine Marshall, James Post, Sheila Puffer, and Irina Tuuli
About the Contributors	301