Ethical Visions of Education: Philosophies in Practice
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Putting good ideas into practice is one of the greatest challenges facing any educator. Eminent thinkers—John Dewey, Jane Addams, and others—dedicated their lives to producing ways of thinking about education and human welfare that have influenced many persons’ lives. At the same time, these renowned thinkers were also trying to solve problems that every classroom teacher faces, namely, how to help children grow and learn as global citizens in a complex world. This pathbreaking book edited by David T. Hansen provides readers with a collection of insights drawn from a diverse array of thinkers that proves there is nothing quite as practical as a good educational philosophy. It will challenge readers to articulate their own working vision of how to integrate the “big ideas” about education into daily practice.
“In fewer than 200 pages Hansen brings together the insights and legacies of ten seminal 20th century thinkers whose ideas about teaching and learning reach beyond the measurement of cognition or the mastery of knowledge to include the ethical, moral, and spiritual dimensions of educational experiences. Articles focus not only on well-known Western educators such as John Dewey, Paolo Freire, Maria Montessori, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams and Rudolf Steiner, but also on less well-known, non-Western thinkers such as Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Tao Xingzhi, and Rabindranath Tagore…. Despite the diversity of the authors’ backgrounds, the chapters cohere very well [and] the writing is consistently clear and accessible. Ethical Visions of Education provides an informative introduction to educational philosophy for the beginning student, but it is also of interest to those already familiar with the authors included in the book.”
—Grace Roosevelt, Teachers College Record
“Fascinating and readable accounts of great educational philosophies from all over the world. It is a major contribution to both philosophy of education and global education.”
—Nel Noddings, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education Emerita, Stanford University
“Provides a moral counterweight to the forces of standardization, commercialization, and politicization that increasingly threaten our schools. This book should be read, and read again, by everyone who takes education seriously.”
—Larry Hickman, Director of The Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
“A dynamic, moving exploration of educational philosophy. This is the kind of book, a kind of approach to philosophy, that the field of education in general and the field of philosophy of education in particular needs. The book truly sparkles.”
—Dale T. Snauwaert, Director, Center for Nonviolence and Democratic Education, Judith Herb College of Education, University of Toledo
“An inspiring intellectual companion for concerned educators who are committed to transforming powerful educational ideas into socially responsive pedagogical actions.”
—Huey-li Li, Professor of Education, Department Educational Foundations and Leadership, University of Akron
David T. Hansen is Professor and Director of the program in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Foreword
Daisaku Ikeda
Preface
Virginia Benson
Introduction: Ideas, Action, and Ethical Vision in Education
David T. Hansen
Part I: Foundational Perspectives on the Aims of Education
Chapter 1: John Dewey on Education and the Quality of Life
David T. Hansen
Chapter 2: Paulo Freire’s Politics and Pedagogy
Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy
Chapter 3: W. E. B. Du Bois and an Education for Democracy and Creativity
Rodino Anderson
Part II: Political Pressures, Educational Responses
Chapter 4: Value Creation as the Aim of Education: Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Soka Education
Andrew Gebert and Monte Joffee
Chapter 5: Learning from Experience: Jane Addams’s Education in Democracy as a Way of Life
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Chapter 6: Tao Xingzhi and the Emergence of Public Education in China
Zhang Kaiyuan and Wang Weijia
Part III: Unleashing Human Growth and Potential
Chapter 7: Peace as a Premise for Learning: Maria Montessori’s Educational Philosophy
Jacqueline Cossentino and Jennifer Whitcomb
Chapter 8: Art, Nature, and Education: Rabindranath Tagore’s Holistic Approach to Learning
Kathleen M. O’Connell
Chapter 9: Artful Curriculum, Evaluation, and Instruction: Lessons Learned from Rudolf Steiner’s Spiritually Based Waldorf Education
Bruce Uhrmacher
Chapter 10: Caring for Others as a Path to Teaching and Learning: Albert Schweitzer’s Reverence for Life
A. G. Rud
Description
Putting good ideas into practice is one of the greatest challenges facing any educator. Eminent thinkers—John Dewey, Jane Addams, and others—dedicated their lives to producing ways of thinking about education and human welfare that have influenced many persons’ lives. At the same time, these renowned thinkers were also trying to solve problems that every classroom teacher faces, namely, how to help children grow and learn as global citizens in a complex world. This pathbreaking book edited by David T. Hansen provides readers with a collection of insights drawn from a diverse array of thinkers that proves there is nothing quite as practical as a good educational philosophy. It will challenge readers to articulate their own working vision of how to integrate the “big ideas” about education into daily practice.
Advance Praise
“In fewer than 200 pages Hansen brings together the insights and legacies of ten seminal 20th century thinkers whose ideas about teaching and learning reach beyond the measurement of cognition or the mastery of knowledge to include the ethical, moral, and spiritual dimensions of educational experiences. Articles focus not only on well-known Western educators such as John Dewey, Paolo Freire, Maria Montessori, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams and Rudolf Steiner, but also on less well-known, non-Western thinkers such as Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Tao Xingzhi, and Rabindranath Tagore…. Despite the diversity of the authors’ backgrounds, the chapters cohere very well [and] the writing is consistently clear and accessible. Ethical Visions of Education provides an informative introduction to educational philosophy for the beginning student, but it is also of interest to those already familiar with the authors included in the book.”
—Grace Roosevelt, Teachers College Record
“Fascinating and readable accounts of great educational philosophies from all over the world. It is a major contribution to both philosophy of education and global education.”
—Nel Noddings, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education Emerita, Stanford University
“Provides a moral counterweight to the forces of standardization, commercialization, and politicization that increasingly threaten our schools. This book should be read, and read again, by everyone who takes education seriously.”
—Larry Hickman, Director of The Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
“A dynamic, moving exploration of educational philosophy. This is the kind of book, a kind of approach to philosophy, that the field of education in general and the field of philosophy of education in particular needs. The book truly sparkles.”
—Dale T. Snauwaert, Director, Center for Nonviolence and Democratic Education, Judith Herb College of Education, University of Toledo
“An inspiring intellectual companion for concerned educators who are committed to transforming powerful educational ideas into socially responsive pedagogical actions.”
—Huey-li Li, Professor of Education, Department Educational Foundations and Leadership, University of Akron
Author(s)
David T. Hansen is Professor and Director of the program in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Daisaku Ikeda
Preface
Virginia Benson
Introduction: Ideas, Action, and Ethical Vision in Education
David T. Hansen
Part I: Foundational Perspectives on the Aims of Education
Chapter 1: John Dewey on Education and the Quality of Life
David T. Hansen
Chapter 2: Paulo Freire’s Politics and Pedagogy
Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy
Chapter 3: W. E. B. Du Bois and an Education for Democracy and Creativity
Rodino Anderson
Part II: Political Pressures, Educational Responses
Chapter 4: Value Creation as the Aim of Education: Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Soka Education
Andrew Gebert and Monte Joffee
Chapter 5: Learning from Experience: Jane Addams’s Education in Democracy as a Way of Life
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Chapter 6: Tao Xingzhi and the Emergence of Public Education in China
Zhang Kaiyuan and Wang Weijia
Part III: Unleashing Human Growth and Potential
Chapter 7: Peace as a Premise for Learning: Maria Montessori’s Educational Philosophy
Jacqueline Cossentino and Jennifer Whitcomb
Chapter 8: Art, Nature, and Education: Rabindranath Tagore’s Holistic Approach to Learning
Kathleen M. O’Connell
Chapter 9: Artful Curriculum, Evaluation, and Instruction: Lessons Learned from Rudolf Steiner’s Spiritually Based Waldorf Education
Bruce Uhrmacher
Chapter 10: Caring for Others as a Path to Teaching and Learning: Albert Schweitzer’s Reverence for Life
A. G. Rud
