In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

List of Contributors GERT BIESTA is Professor of Educational Theory at the University of Exeter, and Visiting Professor for Education and Democratic Citizenship at Orebro University, Sweden. His latest book is Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future (2006). SHARON FEIMAN-NEMSER is the Mandel Professor of Jewish Education at Brandeis University. A scholar of teacher education and learning to teach, she has designed and taught in progressive teacher education programs at the University of Chicago, Michigan State University, and Brandeis University. GARY D FENSTERMACHER is Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Michigan. His primary scholarly interests are in the philosophy of teaching and teaching policy. His more recent work includes the fourth edition of Approaches to Teaching (coauthored with Jonas Soltis). DAVID T. HANSEN is Professor and Director of the Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. His scholarly interests center around the philosophy and practice of teaching, the nature of inquiry, and the criticism of educational values. He has written widely on these topics, including The Call to Teach (1995) and Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching (2001). LARRY A. HICKMAN is director of the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology (1990) and Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture (2001). He is also the editor of Technology as a Human Affair (1990), Reading Dewey (1998), The Essential Dewey (with Thomas Alexander, 1998), and The Correspondence of John Dewey, 1871–1952 (1999, 2001, 2005). 189 190 List of Contributors HERBERT M. KLIEBARD is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Forging the American Curriculum (1992), The Struggle for the American Curriculum (2004), Schooled to Work (1999), Changing Course: American Curriculum Reform in the 20th Century (2002), among many others. ELIZABETH MINNICH, who was Core Professor at the Union Institute’s Graduate College and has taught at East Carolina University (Whichard Visiting Distinguished Professor), and Scripps College (Hartley Burr Alexander Chair for Public Philosophy), is Senior Fellow, Association of American Colleges and Universities. Her books include Transforming Knowledge (1990) and The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy (2005, coauthored with Si Kahn). REBA N. PAGE is a Professor of Education at the University of California, Riverside, where she studies and teaches about curriculum, interpretive research methodologies, and the sociocultural foundations of education. NAOKO SAITO is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education , Kyoto University. She was a postdoctoral fellow of the National Academy of Education/Spenser Foundation (2002–2003). Her recent publications include The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson (2005) and a number of articles on American philosophy as it relates to education, as well as the first Japanese translation of Stanley Cavell’s work, The Senses of Walden (Sensu obu Waruden, 2005). ...

Share