Explores the use of narrative to represent individuals' particular experiences and meanings, discussing women teachers' lived experiences; using writer Annie Ernaux's autobiographical texts as a case study; and examining Martha Nussbaum's and Jane Miller's works to argue that discourses constructed through particulars of narrative texts can…

Discusses the importance of ongoing adult education, summarizing four books that provide a comprehensive guide to the themes and concerns of contemporary adult educators, considering various issues raised in the books (borders and boundaries of adult education, impact of economic restructuring, and emphasis on learning) and examining how the…

Discusses what makes a good listener, examining the following: why good listening is an important intellectual and moral virtue; the kind of detachment that is at the center of good listening; and how this detachment explains why the virtue of good listening should be considered a major virtue and meta virtue. Discusses conditions for the…

Discusses the limits of cross-cultural dialog in the classroom, asking what happens if this togetherness and dialog-across-difference fails to hold a compellingly positive meaning for subordinate ethnic groups. Presents a true story about a classroom in a New Zealand university and a controversial pedagogical strategy employed there. (SM)

Presents a critical-creative appraisal of Harvey Siegel's proposed requirements for critical thinking in his "Rationality Redeemed!" writing from the perspective of Deweyan pragmatism. Discusses Siegel's stance on contextualism; examines where philosophical ideas permanently reside; discusses propositions, hypostatization, and the philosophic…

Argues that there is a particular conceptualization of moral education that should be established in public schools, discussing how to locate a public-school-appropriate moral-education curriculum and examining Dewey's idea of a moral science. The paper's three sections focus on Dewey's new science, the place of the subjective in value judgment,…

W.E.B. Du Bois was a significant 20th-century educational thinker. His works and educational views have relevance to the social, economic, and political realities of contemporary African-American life. The paper places Du Bois' thinking within the historical context of 1930s African-American life, juxtaposes his educational thinking with that of…

Examines four books written by Latinos on Latinos' educational experiences. The books expand on public perceptions of Latinos as a problem, viewing them as a complex group that struggles for and with education despite numerous obstacles. The books are about transformations and departures from ethnic stereotypes. The paper discusses contemporary…

Examines transitions from critical to postcritical and postmodern to premodern that underlie Philip Wexler's writing on social and educational theory, discussing critical social psychology and examining social and spiritual transformation in the postmodern world. For Wexler's envisioned transformation to occur, it must be accompanied by ongoing…

Discusses the place of new technology in education, examining what computer literacy amounts to in the age of the Internet. After noting practical problems with the vision of schools online, the paper considers apparently contrasting responses to new technology which emphasize respectively the reductionism of information technology and the…

Reconstructs the critique and utopia of cyberfeminism, arguing that cyberfeminism does not advance feminist emancipation nor contribute to the elevation of counter-education, which will challenge the violence of the hegemonic order of things and its educational manipulations. Cyberfeminism is part of the system that must be overcome, not a radical…

Discusses cyberliteracy and cyberfeminism, offering alternative viewpoints to other articles on the issue in order to prompt further dialogue between educational philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies. The paper focuses on cyberfeminism and citizenship, cyberfeminist conventionalists, avant-garde cyberfeminists, and multiliteracies, examining…

George Mead's posthumously published works express a genuine philosophy of education. This paper contributes to the reconstruction of Mead's educational philosophy, examining a typescript of student notes from his course on philosophy of education at the University of Chicago. The essay discusses the typescript against the backdrop of Mead's…

Addresses the assumption that ritual performances are not as important in modern, secular, bureaucratic schools as they were in communal, sacred, tribal societies, reviving a concept forged in structuralism and redefining it as a performative text, thus taking advantage of certain poststructural insights while maintaining much of the power of its…

Examines three recent books in the field of philosophy of education, investigating what they tell about the field and noting what their omissions reveal, questions that are being asked, and answers that are being proffered. The paper seeks to uncover tendencies and orientations in need of deconstruction. It concludes that this literature retreats…