Why do we educate?
Subtitle: renewing the conversation
By: editors for volume one David L. Coulter, John R. Wiens ; series editor Gary D. Fenstermacher.
Contributors: Coulter, David L.; Wiens, John R.; Fenstermacher, Gary D.
Series: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 107th pt. 1
Publisher: NSSE; distributed by Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Education.; Democracy and education.; Education -- Philosophy.; Education -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Foreword / Gary D. Fenstermacher; value: Renewing the conversation / David Coulter, John R. Wiens; value: Joining the conversation; value: Education and schooling : a relationship that can never be taken for granted / Ken Osborne; value: Education and democracy : the United States of America as a historical case study / Diane Ravitch; value: Education for a flourishing life / Harry Brighouse; value: Creating common and uncommon worlds; value: American democracy, education, and utopianism / Eamonn Callan; value: Education for global citizenship / Kwarme Anthony Appiah; value: L'affaire du foulard (The scarf affair) / Seyla Benhabib; value: Deliberative democracy and civic education / Lars Løvlie; value: Horizons of significance; value: Culture and education / Sonia Nieto; value: Democratic citizenship and the narrative imagination / Martha C. Nussbaum; value: Teaching natural science in the twenty-first century : opportunities and dangers / ian Wincheste.; value: The role of mathematics in education and democracy / Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Hyman Bass; value: Spirituality and religion in public schooling / Nel Noddings; value: Education and economic development / Randall Nielsen, Janice Kingborn; value: Giving the body its due : autobiographical reflections and utopian imaginings / Joannie Halas, Jeanne Adele Kentel; value: Indigenous knowledge systems and education / Ray Barnhardt, Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley; value: Educating at the interface of biosphere and bitsphere / Ursula M. Franklin; value: Imagining and becoming : education as lifelong and lifewide; value: Education and childhood / Joseph Dunne; value: Educating adolescents / Kieran Egan; value: Some educational implications of adulthood / Gary D. Fenstermacher; value: Democratic eruptions / John R. Wiens, David Coulter.