Why Do We Educate? : Renewing the Conversation.
Title:
Why Do We Educate? : Renewing the Conversation.
Author:
Coulter, David L.
ISBN:
9781444307221
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (324 pages)
Series:
Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education
Contents:
WHY DO WE EDUCATE? RENEWING THE CONVERSATION -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- chapter 1: Prologue: Renewing the Conversation -- Part One: Joining the Conversation -- chapter 2: Education and Schooling: A Relationship That Can Never Be Taken For Granted -- chapter 3: Education and Democracy: The United States of America as a Historical Case Study -- chapter 4: Education for a Flourishing Life -- Part Two: Creating Common and Uncommon Worlds -- chapter 5: American Democracy, Education, and Utopianism -- chapter 6: Education for Global Citizenship -- chapter 7: L'Affaire du Foulard (The Scarf Affair) -- chapter 8: Deliberative Democracy and Civic Education -- Part Three: Horizons of Significance -- chapter 9: Culture and Education -- chapter 10: Democratic Citizenship and the Narrative Imagination -- chapter 11: Teaching Natural Science in the Twenty-First Century: Opportunities and Dangers -- chapter 12: The Role of Mathematics in Education for Democracy -- chapter 13: Spirituality and Religion in Public Schooling -- chapter 14: Education and Economic Development -- chapter 15: Giving the Body Its Due: Autobiographical Reflections and Utopian Imaginings -- chapter 16: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Education -- chapter 17: Educating at the Interface of Biosphere and Bitsphere -- Part Four: Imagining and Becoming: Education as Lifelong and Lifewide -- chapter 18: Education and Childhood -- chapter 19: Educating Adolescents -- chapter 20: Some Educational Implications of Adulthood -- chapter 21: Epilogue: Democratic Eruptions.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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