12-year-old Dylan and his father both drown in a surfing accident. Dylan is revived, but his father's body is never found. What's left of Dylan's family moves from California to his mother's home town of Glasgow, Michigan, where Dylan is visited by people he doesn't know - people he comes to realize are in the process of passing over from life to death. Dylan shares his secret only with his new friend, Emily. Together, they try to understand why the dying residents of Glasgow come to him as they make their final transition and come to understand the importance of the people in their lives and...

This book sets out to explore the challenge to education contained in Heidegger's work. Although he did not develop a systematic philosophy of education, his philosophical insights and occasional remarks about education make him an interesting and troubling figure for education.

This book presents and advocates for a framework of competing epistemologies and conceptions of ethics as a way of understanding modernist lifelong learning. These epistemologies are grounded in a recognition of the normative nature of knowledge that informs lifelong learning; each being framed by a different account of the sort of knowledge that is most valued and therefore foregrounded in lifelong learning policy, provision and engagement informed by the epistemology. Each epistemology is also characterised by its constituent conception of ethics. Four such epistemologies and conceptions...