Education and Hope in Troubled Times: Visions of Change for Our Children's World

ISBN-13: 9780415994255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str.

H. Svi Shapiro

Opis

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 21^st century compelled to confront and address so much that threatens the very basis of a decent and hopeful human existence.

O autorze

H. Svi Shapiro is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Author or editor of a number of books on education and has also published more than 70 articles in national and international journals and writes on education matters for the national magazine, Tikkun. His professional interests include critical and liberatory pedagogies; the moral and spiritual dimensions of education; education and social policy as these relate to social justice, human rights and democracy; global social change and peace education; and qualitative forms of educational inquiry. He is a member of the advisory board of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, a member of the steering committee of Triangle Tikkun, has been actively engaged in interfaith efforts, and has a special interest in the Israel-Palestine conflict.