ISBN-13: 9780415994255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str.
Bringing together a group of the best and most creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education, this collection of essays attempts to articulate a new vision for education, especially public education, and begin to set an alternative direction.
This volume brings together a group of the best and most creative educational thinkers to reflect on the purpose and future of public education. Original essays by these leading social and educational commentators in North America attempt to articulate a new vision for education, especially public education, and begin to set an alternative direction. This is a time of crisis, but also of renewed possibility—one that offers the opportunity to radically reconsider what is the meaning of education for a generation that will bear the brunt of grappling with the extraordinary dangers and challenges we confront today. Carrying forward a project of redefining and reshaping public discourse on education in the U.S., at its core this volume questions what will it mean to be an educated human being in the 21st century compelled to confront and address so much that threatens the very basis of a decent and hopeful human existence.