Why Do We Educate? : Renewing the Conversation

by Editor: David L. Coulter (University of British Colombia ); Editor: John R. Wiens (University of Manitoba ); Editor: Gary D. Fenstermacher (Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan )

• ISBN13: 9781405192170
• ISBN10: 1405192178
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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. Patrick's College, Ireland); Kieran Egan (Simon Fraser); Ursula Franklin (Toronto); Nel Noddings (Stanford); Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) and Diane Ravitch (New York).

Author Biography

David L. Coulter is an Associate Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Teacher Education at the University of British Columbia

John R. Wiens is a Professor of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.

Both were long time public school teachers, school and district administrators prior to their academic careers.

Gary Fenstermacher is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Michigan. He previously held tenured faculty appointments at UCLA, Virginia Tech, and the University of Arizona. His scholarly interests are in philosophy of education, teacher education and educational policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

prologue: renewing the conversation

joining the conversation

education and schooling: a relationship that can never be taken for granted

education and democracy: the united states of america as a historical case study

education for a flourishing life

creating common and uncommon worlds

american democracy, education, and utopianism

education for global citizenship

l'affaire du foulard (the scarf affair)

deliberative democracy and civic education

horizons of significance

culture and education

democratic citizenship and the narrative imagination

teaching natural science in the twenty-first century: opportunities and dangers

the role of mathematics in education for democracy

spirituality and religion in public schooling

education and economic development

giving the body its due: autobiographical reflections and utopian imaginings

indigenous knowledge systems and education

educating at the interface of biosphere and bitsphere

imagining and becoming: education as lifelong and lifewide

education and childhood

educating adolescents

some educational implications of adulthood

epilogue: democratic eruptions

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