Why Do We Educate?

This book reflects the editors; concerns that too many publicdiscussions of education are dominated by too few ideas, and isintended to serve as a kind of handbook for those who wish to enterthe conversation about education * A work of impressive scholarship accessible to the generalreader * A unique collection of essays written by internationallyrecognized and emerging thinkers from the field of education andrelated disciplines * Contributors, among others, include Anthony Appiah (Princeton); Seyla Benhabib (Yale); Eamonn Callan (Stanford); Joseph Dunne (St. Patrick's College, Ireland); Kieran Egan (Simon Fraser); Ursula Franklin (Toronto); Nel Noddings (Stanford); Martha Nussbaum(Chicago) and Diane Ravitch (New York)