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)

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)

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).