Coulter / Wiens / Fenstermacher Why Do We Educate?

Renewing the Conversation
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0722-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

This book reflects the editors; concerns that too many publicdiscussions of education are dominated by too few ideas, and isintended to serve as a kind of handbook for those who wish to enterthe conversation about education
* A work of impressive scholarship accessible to the generalreader
* A unique collection of essays written by internationallyrecognized and emerging thinkers from the field of education andrelated 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)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coulter, David L.

Wiens, John R.

Fenstermacher, Gary D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword (Gary D Fenstermacher).
Acknowledgments.
1. Prologue: Renewing the Conversation (David Coulter &John R. Wiens).
Part One: Loining the Conversation.
2. Education and Schooling: a Relationship that Can Never beTaken for Granted (Ken Osborne).
3. Education and Democracy: The United States of America as aHistorical Case Study (Diane Ravitch).
4. Education for a Flourishing Life (HarryBrighouse).
Part Two: Creating Common and Uncommon Worlds.
5. American Democracy, Education, and Utopianism (EamonnCallan).
6. Education for Global Citizenship (Kwame AnthonyAppiah).
7. L'affaire du Foulard (The Scarf Affair) (SeylaBenhabib).
8. Deliberative Democracy and Civic Education (LarsLøvlie).
Part Three: Horizons of Significance.
9. Culture and Education (Sonia Nieto).
10. Democratic Citizenship and the Narrative Imagination(Martha C. Nussbaum).
11. Teaching Natural Science in the Twenty-first Century:Opportunities and Dangers (Ian Winchester).
12. The Role of Mathematics in Education for Democracy(Deborah Loewenberg Ball & Hyman Bass).
13. Spirituality and Religion in Public Schooling (NelNoddings).
14. Education and Economic Development (Randall Nielsen &Janice Kinghorn).
15. Giving the Body its Due: Autobiographical Reflections andUtopian Imaginings (Joannie Halas & Jeanne AdeleKentel).
16. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Education (Ray Barnhardtand Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley).
17. Educating at the Interface of Biosphere and Bitsphere(Ursula M. Franklin).
Part Four: Imagining and Becoming: Education as Lifelong andLifewide.
18. Education and Childhood (Joseph Dunne).
19. Educating Adolescents (Kieran Egan).
20. Some Educational Implications of Adulthood (Gary DFenstermacher).
21. Epilogue: Democratic Eruptions (John R. Wiens & DavidCoulter).

Über Autor(innen)

David L. Coulter is an Associate Professor of Education andCo-Director of the Centre for the Study of Teacher Education at theUniversity of British Columbia
John R. Wiens is a Professor of Education and Dean of theFaculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.
Both were long time public school teachers, school and districtadministrators prior to their academic careers.
Gary Fenstermacher is Professor Emeritus of Education atthe University of Michigan. He previously held tenured facultyappointments at UCLA, Virginia Tech, and the University of Arizona.His scholarly interests are in philosophy of education, teachereducation and educational policy.